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American police are absurdly trigger-happy compared with other rich countries[0], maybe this helps counter that?

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_killings_by_law_enforc...



What happens when you adjust those figures for something like differences in private gun ownership rates between populations? It seems obvious that America has the most guns, and that having so many more guns than anybody else probably causes a dramatic increase in the number of justifiable homicides police are involved in.




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