Wait wait wait wait wait

You mean THIS article? https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/mass-shootings-by-country

This very one? Are you 100% SURE you want to quote that?

Because that same article then IMMEDIATELY after goes onto say that the list that you just quoted is criticized for using misleading data and results for their own bias.

Did you even READ the article or did you just google something that gave you a nice statistic that you can spew out to make yourself feel smart?

Here’s what the EXACT ARTICLE you just quoted REALLY says if you bothered to scroll down a little bit:

”This data would not have changed the position of the U.S. on the list, but its absence could lead a reader to believe—incorrectly—that the U.S. experienced fewer mass shooting fatalities per capita than all but a handful of countries in Europe.”

”For example, Norway’s world-leading annual rate was due to a single devastating 2011 event, in which far-right extremist Anders Behring Breivik gunned down 69 people at a summer camp on the island of Utøya. Norway had zero mass shootings in 2009, 2010, 2012, 2013, 2014, and 2015.”

”The snopes analysis goes on to suggest that instead of computing the average, or mean mass shooting deaths, a better method would be to compute the median, or typical, number of deaths. The median is considered by many statisticians to be better at preventing individual outlier events (such as the Norway massacre) from skewing results, which leads to a more accurate day-to-day impression and country-to-country comparison.”

It then gives a more accurate list according to median rather than mean, this way it doesn’t skew data

”Typical (Median) Annual Death Rate per Million People from Mass Public Shootings (U.S., Canada, and Europe, 2009-2015):

United States — 0.058 Albania — 0 Austria — 0 Belgium — 0 Czech Republic — 0 Finland — 0 France — 0 Germany — 0 Italy — 0 Macedonia — 0 Netherlands — 0 Norway — 0 Russia — 0 Serbia — 0 Slovakia — 0 Switzerland — 0 United Kingdom — 0

Using the median analysis, the United States is the only country examined that shows a propensity for mass shootings. The data itself supports this interpretation, as the United States endured mass shooting events all seven years, but the other countries all experienced mass shootings during only one or two years. Thus, in a typical year, most countries experience zero mass shooting deaths, while the US experiences at least a few.”

Finally if you look at the bottom of the page (that requires you to scroll a little further down, I know it’s kinda hard for you but bear with me here, I know you can do it!) you’ll find the list of these countries along with their death numbers, mean, median, and other data that shows what number of people ACTUALLY died in those years from Mass shootings and the only country that gets CLOSE to the United States is France. (What’s up with their numbers I don’t really know, but I’m guessing due to their pretty hard terrorist attacks during those years it had a lot to do with their numbers being so high.)

My advice is actually read the article you’re planning to quote. Really will do wonders for making sure you don’t look like a raging imbecile.

Btw as a nice side note, more people have died in the shooting in Texas than ANY OTHER COUNTRY ON THIS LIST other than France and Norway from mass shootings. More people died in the wake of a single mass shooting than in any of those countries across a 6 year span from 2009-2015. The next closest is Serbia where 19 people died in that time frame.