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		rootusrootus on Aug 7, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Car Bloat: “Huge Cars Are Terrible for Society” Texas has considerably more gun violence than, for example, Chicago. You may want to reconsider.

Rebelgecko on Aug 7, 2023 | [–]

By what metric? It looks like the per capita murder rate in Chicago is almost 5x higher

artificialLimbs on Aug 7, 2023 | [–]

I would suspect an area of 250,000 sq miles and 30,000,000 people would have considerably more gun violence than one with 230 sq miles and 3,000,000 people. Now do per capita.

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