5mo ago

Homicide Rate in Europe (by country) and the USA (by state) in 2020

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What's the reason for excluding so many european countries in this graphic?
- It looks like their source was the Eurostat Data Browser. Maybe these are just the countries it has data for?
- The UK not being included makes me think that these are only EU member countries? I don't know for sure though.
  
  Switzerland is included though. I'm thinking it's just data availability.
  
  It literally says Eurostat in the bottom right
  Eurostat (European Statistical Office; DG ESTAT) is a Directorate-General of the European Commission (...). Eurostat's main responsibilities are to provide statistical information to the institutions of the European Union (EU) and to promote the harmonisation of statistical methods across its member states and candidates for accession as well as EFTA countries.
- so many
  Two countries are being left out. Is two a high number to you?
  
  UK, Switserland, Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, Moldavia.
  Cyprus is included for some reason.
  Which two of the above were you referring to?
  
  The numbers for Russia and Ukraine would be quite bad at the moment, me thinks.
  
  Isn't the aim of the game to make US look bad?
  
  The US does look bad. There is no make involved. The US homocide / gun deaths numbers are en par to some failed states or those with civil or actual war.
  
  Your argument would be illustrated if this post included europe, as the title claimed it would.
  
  Ok, so the US is only much worse than the majority of EU countries.
  That better?
  
  Amazing, huh, how comparing the US to other modern civilised countries makes the US look bad?
  I wonder what that means...
  
  Maybe Europe is just too good. It's suspicious. What are they hiding under all that not being murdered.
  
  Plenty of shitty politicians.
  
  The reason the US looks bad is because the US is bad. You don't need to aim very high... I mean, you don't need to aim at all, or put any effort into it. Just let the US be the US and it already does all the looking bad for you.
  
  and Bosnia and Herzegovina
  
  The UK left the EU, and since when the hell was Russia part of it!?
  
  Title says Europe, not EU.
- As with all EU policy, the purpose is to make the USA look bad. This is the only reason Russia is not even in the EFTA or the EU.
  I have insider information that powers are play are trying to engineer a way to kick out Latvia to make the statistics more embarrassing to you.
  PS: UK 1.48, Switserland Not a country, Russia 6.8, Belarus 2.32, Ukraine 3.84 pre-war, Moldavia 2.27 USA 6.38
  I don't think adding Russia will make the difference you think it will, since it's barely more violent than the US.
  
  The UK would be 1.00 on this chart - source
  
  I used wikipedia's data that is sourced from UNODC and is apparently for 2021. For states the size of the UK it doesn't really matter, fluctuations are small. Any given year the US will have ~6 times the homicide rate of the UK.
- seems to be some non-eu countries...
  
  Yet switserland is colored in
  
  hence SOME
- Whenever you see a map with data about most European countries but not the UK, it's probably Eurostat. After Brexit they stopped sharing their data.
- No data available is what I assumed.
- Pretty sure the UK is no longer part of Europe. The greyed out countries aren't part of Europe, so why would they be included?
  
  The UK is part of Europe, it just isn't part of the EU.
  
  I mean, they would certainly like to be again.
  
  Not sure about that. The 51% who voted against membership still voted for the trainwreck of Tory leaderships.
  They won't admit that it was a fuck up, because collapsing an economy, killing workers rights, and plunging more people into poverty than the past 30 years is fair game when you're a racist.
  
  Out-dated British imperial ideals. For some reason a sizable portion of the UK believes they're the most important country in the world because of... Legacy?
  Except that legacy has made a lot of bad blood around the world, and the rest of Europe was kind of happy to see the UK go, because the UK always wanted an exceptional place in e edy decision and deal with the EU.
  
  So many things you've said have been so wrong so far.
  You completely misunderstand what happen, what is happening, and other peoples reactions.
  You should stick with your poorly thought out American politics.
  
  I'm European. But yes, do please tell me how I "misunderstood" things, and not simply made an observation about the sheer arrogance and hubris of the UK, as one of your neighbours.

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