Info from Wikipedia on Africa, Asia, China, Canada, USA, Mexico, South America, Europe, South Africa Oceania. Guatamala

This was the only reliable information I could find, Caribbean, and most of central America information not found.

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  1. Info from Wikipedia on Africa, Asia, China, Canada, USA, Mexico, South America, Europe, South Africa Oceania. Guatamala

    This was the only reliable information I could find, Caribbean, and most of central America information not found.

  2. That is quite a terrifying result. I never knew it was that much.

  3. Clearly, there is nothing that can be done about gun violence. Continue thoughts and prayers.

  4. You could merge all of the other countries and it would still make sense.

  5. Most surprising thing to me here is China being that high, even with 1.5 billion people

  6. Not that it changes the result but I don’t think the list of countries is complete, Sweden had a school shooting last year but isn’t on the list

  7. If you are sourcing this from the English Wikipedia, I imagine there could be some bias towards English-speaking countries.

  8. not defending either side here, curious how many schools per country? what % vs number of students or schools?

  10. China isn’t even that much of an outlier without the U.S. since the population is much higher. 

  12. Man, as a Canadian I am SHOCKED to see such a high number of us. 

  14. The excuse was all the dead kids were worth it because the brave patriot militias must resist tyranny. I guess all those dead kids were killed for nothing.

  15. Does this include other violence or just shootings? If the latter, I’d be interested to see the stats on it

  16. I’m actually shocked at 574 over 25 years ???? Feels like it should be higher.

  17. The post says killing attempts, but the figure says shooting attempts. Is this about firearms specific violence?

  18. Oddly, as an American, the only school shooting I’ve been present for was the ONE in Australia. 2002 Monash University.

    Within the next week, the Australian Parliament strengthened gun laws.

  19. I don’t often comment here, but this is a terrible chart. This is a list of meaningless numbers that you’re just throwing out without context or explanation to try to prove a point. If you want to make an argument, then you need to do better than this. This is fodder for gun-rights advocates to show how little the opposition knows, and how gun-control advocates are arguing from a point of ignorance and bad faith.

    Is this “school and university killing or attempted killing incidents” or is this “number of shootings”? What “info from Wikipedia” are you using? What counts as an attempted killing or a shooting? Mexico has a murder rate four times higher than the US. I don’t believe for one second that all of Mexico has had only 17 shootings or attempted killings at universities or schools, if the United States has had 574. Even leaving out adjusting for the US population size compared to other countries, there’s no way this data is comparing apples to apples.

  20. Data is wrong! Guns don’t kill people. People kill people ! If everybody had guns, everyone would be safe. /s

  22. Damn kids are safer in countries that US regularly bombs when comoared to US itself. 

  24. in many ways America is still the wild wild West and we still have frontier justice 

  25. Hey OP, may I from the bottom of my egotistical heart ask you to color the bars by guns control policy status on each country?

  26. “ We’re number one, we’re number … aww” What a crazy place.

  27. You should show all the EU countries as one (i guess as EU) . Would still probably be wayyy less but would make more sense to present it that way.

  28. It’s the same discrepancy as the graph with serial killers per country.

  29. Solution: just normalize the graph nor per country, not per capity but per gun – to say shootings/gun

  31. China in second place seems strange but also the scale of China so i then look at 3rd and I am actually worried about Canada

  33. Not saying the US doesn’t have a gun problem, but it’d be more compelling to normalize this by population right?

  34. Oh look, another post about blaming inanimate objects. Lets ban cars as well.

  36. “The killer and the killed are the product of the same sick society.” – Shahid King Bolsen on the murder of Charlie Kirk

  38. What do you think happens when the people are squeezed too much?

  40. Can we see it indexed against population, or school population? I’m not saying it’s going to change the outcome but it would be more accurate 

  41. Thanks for the effort but this graph is terrible. It’s not clear what it represents. Are we looking at killings? Attemped killings? Total killings and attempted killings? Shootings? People that got shot?

    What are your sources? Wikipedia is a reliable source?

    In China there are basically no guns and the attacks that happen in schools are stabbings, but according to the graphs it looks like there were 74 shootings.

    How is this on r/dataisbeautiful

  42. “We have to get over it, we have to move on.” – Donald Trump on school shootings.

  44. This graph means nothing when it’s not per capita. Or maybe deaths per capita.

  45. You need to normalize by population size. The US is still the clear winner, but the data is more informative.

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