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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's a good study on gunshoot statistics thay include nonletal gunshot wounds:

https://www.theactuarymagazine.org/firearm-risk/

[–] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 19 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Which comes out to about 1/7 of a person in that room being shot per year.

[–] cantsurf@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago

But its not as shocking if I say that there are a million people in the room and one gets shot per day! (But I mean, that still seems significant to me.)

In their example, almost everybody is getting shot every year. Happy birthday, BLAM!

[–] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Yea, if 1/400 people were shot a day, nearly everyone would have been shot by the time they were 2.