re: France bans drinking alcohol in public to counter brutal heat wave

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More people die in Europe each year due to heat-related causes than the number of gun-related deaths in America.

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I don't get why people love throwing this out all the time and the numbers seem to be different depending on who is publishing it. Europe has over twice the population of the US and they are significantly older. With their older infrastructure and varied development region to region, it’s not crazy that they have more heat related deaths than us. Should add that throwing gun deaths into it just doesn’t make any sense. The two aren’t related.

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More people die in Europe each year due to heat-related causes than the number of gun-related deaths in America.

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This is fun trivia, but it's misleading. Europe has more than twice our population (744 million). After controlling for population, the incident rate of gun related deaths in the US is more than twice that of heat related deaths in Europe.

Do not tell me it's a HEAT DOME

France is full of Africans who will drink. It’s just a lame PC friendly way to try to address the violent throngs of savages in the Paris streets. It won’t do anything except now they can shake down some white tourists.