>>>You do realize that SA is an entire continent :)
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>>I do believe he meant South Africa.
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>I guess it depends on what someone means by "western country"
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>>>There are many countries in the west with higher per capita homicide rates than the U.S.
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>>ROFL
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>I'm not sure why you're laughing. It's true, there are many countries in the western hemisphere with a higher per capita homicide rate.
What's germane here is so-called "Western" nations i.e. first-world, highly developed. But you already knew that, it's not like you're trying to morph "in the west" into "western hemisphere" just to try to syntactically win an argument :-/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-related_death_rateIt's a long-standing conundrum e.g. why is the US rate nearly 5x as high as Canada's?
Regards. Al
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