• maryjayjay@lemmy.world
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        11 months ago

        Yep, the US rate of knife crime is more than 7 times higher than the UK, and that is per capita

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          11 months ago

          Not sure what point you’re trying to make. Comparisons should be done per capita. Otherwise, it’s useless.

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            11 months ago

            Usually morons will point out how much larger our population is than the UK. I was stressing that the measure IS per capita, and it is egregiously worse.

            I was going out of my way to avoid people missing my point while adding more information, but there’s always someone…

            I edited my post

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      11 months ago

      And they were right. Notice how Britain doesn’t have weekly mass stabbings?