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Rule of 400 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 1 year ago by uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone to c/196@lemmy.blahaj.zone

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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's a breakdown of the United States general population, I think.

[–] cjsolx@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

So, in a little over a year everyone in the USA will be shot? 875K people are shot daily?

[–] Trollception@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yea I could believe the other stats but there's no way one person out of 400 is being shot every day.

[–] AVincentInSpace@pawb.social 4 points 1 year ago

Also, over 20% of the population is illiterate? I don't buy it

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

It's about 26k total homicides per year, about half are firearms, a huge majority of those are handguns.

So 875k people in the US are shot to death roughly every 67 years.