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If New Orleans were a country, it would be second-worst for gun violence in the world
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If New Orleans were a country, it would be second-worst for gun violence in the world

Sobering data on gun violence in the first world relative to the developing world.

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Ted Bauer
Jan 12, 2015
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New Orleans is a beautiful, charming, culturally-relevant part of the United States -- and it also happens, periodically, to be extremely violent and gun-driven. How much so? Quite a bit, actually. 

  • Start here.

  • Now look at this map:

U.S. Homicides Compared To Countries
  • As you can probably tell, this map takes U.S. cities, looks at firearm homicides per 100K people, and then compares them to c…

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