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> The US seems like a very cool place, with so much potential, but increasingly, i'm considering putting it on my personal blacklist as far as destinations to look for work go. I just can't imagine living in fear of some concealed-carry-permit holding goon deciding to shoot the place up. The US homicide rate is around 3.8 per 100k. That is higher than much of Europe (UK 1.0, Finland 1.6, Norway 2.2, Germany 0.8) but…
In invoking "concealed-carry-permit holding goons", the commenter is making a point that isn't easily rebutted by geography. They're referring to the rate of mass shootings , not of homicides in general.
[1] By one or two orders of magnitude, depending on whose definition of"mass shooting" you use [2]. Mother Jones maintains a list, and theirs says that there have been 4 mass shootings so far this year, with 37 deaths. The Mass Shooting Tracker says 353 so far, with 462 killed.
[2] http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-san-bernardino-mass-shoo...