# What are other countries doing right to prevent mass shootings?

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**Created:** [November 6, 2017, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-other-countries-doing-right-to-prevent-mass-shootings/800900 "2017-11-06T17:46:51Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 7, 2017, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-are-other-countries-doing-right-to-prevent-mass-shootings/800900/63 "2017-11-07T17:41:55Z")

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> [@Novelty\_Bobble](#):
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> You say the USA is at #94 on that list but as it stands that list is just in area order.  
> I suggest that everyone go to your supplied link, sort the countries by homicide rate and then begin reading down. When you do that the USA is at #126. That means that 58% of all countries on earth have lower rates of homicide. The USA is not smack dab in the middle of\* all\* countries, and certainly not the countries that the USA should be measuring itself against.
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> And as you go down the list note the familiar names that crop up early on. Sizable western-style liberal democracies are notable in the top 40 including those listed below
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> (The USA has a homicide rate _4 times_ as high as any of those countries listed above.)
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> You then have to keep going for quite a while to get to the USA, past some rather unsavoury nations I might add.
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> The half dozen nations that sandwich the USA on that table are the Marshall Islands, Cuba, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Somalia, Kenya
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> The half dozen nations that sandwich the UK are, Slovakia, Iceland, New Zealand, Tonga, Malta, Portugal.
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> Whichever way you slice it the USA has a high rate of homicide when compared to most superficially equivalent western nations…

Mexico is a superficially equivalent western nation.

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