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Originally Posted by Sarah_W
I will have to disagree with some of that. The list of "mass murder events" that you refer to is not a true list of mass murders. I've looked at the raw data, such as on the GunViolence website, an most of the events listed are not mass murders, they are mass injuries of which they deem to be 3 or more. If three people are shot with .22 pistols and have to go to the hospital, it makes the list. Do other countries count that? I have no idea.
To compare us to other countries the raw data has to be collected in the same way and analyzed in the same way to make it comparable.
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There are professional statisticians that are perfectly capable of comparing apples to apples and coming up with worldwide comparisons for different countries. Many people in the US are so ethnocentric that they believe the unlikely statement that the US is # 1 at everything and in ALL categories. It was true that after WW2 the US was in the top 10 in all worldwide categories. Today the Scandinavian countries and Switzerland are in the top ten. The US is around 30th or below in most categories. I think that it may be 21 in higher education. I have not looked in a while, but those lists should not be hard to find. I believe that jingoism is defined as believing that your country can do no wrong.