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2025-10-13

Is the USA ok?

YouTube and/or some people who don't like serious conversations tends to disappear comments, so here's a copy of one with links to sources:
It appears that not a day goes by in the USA without somebody shooting multiple people, hence my question since people seem tired of talking about them.

According to a 2012 Guardian article on gun homicides, the average per 100k people gun homicide rate was 4.9 globally, 3.0 for the US, and 0.4 for Europe (not counting Kosovo, Montenegro, and Russia due to missing data).

In for example 1956 when US schools had gun safety classes, Wikipedia only lists a page for Asia. 1954 had one mass shooting in the US Capitol though. The total US population, including Armed Forces overseas, was about 162,414,000 on July 1, 1954, based on the 1950 Census.
1/162,414,000*100,000 = 0.0006 mass shootings (which includes school shootings) per 100k people.

In 2024 however, with only 340.1 million people, there were 586 mass shootings according to Wikipedia, so 586 / 340.1e6 * 100000 = 0.1723 per 100k people. A 280 times increase.
Meanwhile, less kinetically energetic pollution is causing about one human megadeath per year.