The lines are absolutely useless and diminish clarity. If you had written “US export” in the title then it would have eliminated the need for them and made the map legible.
As someone else said, the lines don’t serve a purpose. In some cases you can argue that it is more aesthetically pleasing, but I’m this case the lines actually take *away* from the clarity.
If you “have to” do something fun, you could perhaps heat map the countries, or size the destination countries by # of imports. But that’s not necessary, not helpful.
since you have only two data points (# of firearms and destination country), you really don’t need anything but the bar graph on the right. There’s nothing else you can show on a visual that helps to explain the data.
Could you please make it less readable? It’s a little too coherent right now
Are you combining numbers for military use and civilian sporting arms here? All semi auto together regardless of category, so pistols rifles and shotguns all lumped into one? A .50 BMG anti materiel rifle counts the same as a hunting shotgun? Because if so, the statistic is utterly meaningless. A country with a strong hunting culture could be rated higher than a country importing military weapons.
Full auto would be more interesting, since that’s only exported to military and law enforcement end users as far as I know. Semi auto will be mostly for civilian use, but full auto export numbers would indicate which regimes are being supported with military arms sales.
Can someone educate the “Why” for high semi automatics to Thailand and Philippines?
I am assuming those don’t stay IN the country and from there they are sold elsewhere??
Thanks in advance.
Defeats the Mexican narrative on why their homicide rate is high, they blame it on firearms from the United States.
It should be higher in southeast Asia, then.
Ouch in Thailand now, beach on xmas day seems ok so far.. I live in Canada, good thing were too polite to shot each other.
![[OC] U.S. semiautomatic firearms exports, cumulative volume (2005-2022)](https://www.europesays.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/bhh1tzqmao8e1-1920x1024.png)
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The lines are absolutely useless and diminish clarity. If you had written “US export” in the title then it would have eliminated the need for them and made the map legible.
As someone else said, the lines don’t serve a purpose. In some cases you can argue that it is more aesthetically pleasing, but I’m this case the lines actually take *away* from the clarity.
If you “have to” do something fun, you could perhaps heat map the countries, or size the destination countries by # of imports. But that’s not necessary, not helpful.
since you have only two data points (# of firearms and destination country), you really don’t need anything but the bar graph on the right. There’s nothing else you can show on a visual that helps to explain the data.
Could you please make it less readable? It’s a little too coherent right now
Are you combining numbers for military use and civilian sporting arms here? All semi auto together regardless of category, so pistols rifles and shotguns all lumped into one? A .50 BMG anti materiel rifle counts the same as a hunting shotgun? Because if so, the statistic is utterly meaningless. A country with a strong hunting culture could be rated higher than a country importing military weapons.
Full auto would be more interesting, since that’s only exported to military and law enforcement end users as far as I know. Semi auto will be mostly for civilian use, but full auto export numbers would indicate which regimes are being supported with military arms sales.
Can someone educate the “Why” for high semi automatics to Thailand and Philippines?
I am assuming those don’t stay IN the country and from there they are sold elsewhere??
Thanks in advance.
Defeats the Mexican narrative on why their homicide rate is high, they blame it on firearms from the United States.
It should be higher in southeast Asia, then.
Ouch in Thailand now, beach on xmas day seems ok so far.. I live in Canada, good thing were too polite to shot each other.
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