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Spread of gang violence wrecks Sweden's peaceful image
Submitted 11 months ago by BrikoX@lemmy.zip to globalnews@lemmy.zip
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-67342368
BrikoX@lemmy.zip 11 months ago
It’s interested how the reaction here is different compared to US. They have the highest gun violence in the whole EU, but it’s a few hundred cases not tens of thousands, and it’s considered a national crisis.
vind@lemmy.world 11 months ago
At first I thought it might be due to the lower population, so each instance is more felt, but I did the math to see and it surprised me:
So far in 2023:
At least 50 fatalities have occurred in relation to gang wars (shootings, explosions etc.) There are around 10 million people in Sweden.
50/10,000,000 = 0.000005, or rather 1/200,000
In the US, there have been 35,000 fatalities in relation to guns (I’m not well versed in US death statistics, so please correct me if I’m wrong) there are around 340 million people in the US.
35,000/340,000,000 = 0.0001029411764, or rather 7/68000
bulwark@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just because I was curious and wanted to see an apples to apples comparison: Sweden’s fatal shootings = 1/200,000 America’s fatal shootings = ~205/200,000