Denver police have arrested a 13-year-old boy accused of fatally shooting a man whose leg was blocking the aisle on a public bus.

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    10 months ago

    Yes it does. People under 18 getting hold of firearms and behaving like idiots with them is something that gets reported on frequently in the US and pretty much the US alone.

    But sure, name all these other places where this happens on a regular basis.

    E: lmao. Straigh up lies in the retort. Asia and Africa don’t have gun problems. Even the most violent place in Africa has a gun violence rate of barely over half of the US’s. Fair enough on central America.

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      10 months ago

      Mexico? Except guess where Mexico gets most of their illegal firearms from…

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        10 months ago

        You literally made that up. It’s the US and a few unstable countries in South America.

        South Africa, one of the highest homicide rate countries in the world, with a murder rate 6.5x higher than the US, has half the gun homicide rate of the US.

        India has has 1 gun homicide per 100k. The US has 11 per 100k.

        But yeah. Keep telling us how everywhere outside of Europe and Australia is like this. It’s BS.

      • v_krishna@lemmy.ml
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        That’s absolutely not true. Data shows the only countries with higher gun deaths per capita than the US are all central and parts of South America. E.g., India’s per capita gun death rate is 0.56 vs 4.12 in the US.