It's actually so funny to see "gun control doesn't work" guys commenting about the assassination. Japan has had fewer gun homicides this year than the average number of daily gun homicides in the US in 2021. By like a factor of 15.
One thing about the statistics that i think people get wrong is that they compare "firearm deaths" when surely the thing we should be comparing between countries is overall violence. The most useful statistic for this would be what the UN calls "non-conflict deaths", which includes all homicides, suicides, police shootings, executions etc, but I can't seem to find the most recent data on that on a country by country level.
It's actually so funny to see "gun control doesn't work" guys commenting about the assassination. Japan has had fewer gun homicides this year than the average number of daily gun homicides in the US in 2021. By like a factor of 15.
One thing about the statistics that i think people get wrong is that they compare "firearm deaths" when surely the thing we should be comparing between countries is overall violence. The most useful statistic for this would be what the UN calls "non-conflict deaths", which includes all homicides, suicides, police shootings, executions etc, but I can't seem to find the most recent data on that on a country by country level.