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[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 9 points 1 year ago

So lets take a look at the everyday, at least 1 person is shot

This would assert %0.25 of the population receives one or more gunshot injuries each day or 830,000 gunshot victims per year

A Penn Medicine study claims the number is 329/day

Which is 0.000098% of the population or 120,167 victims a year.

Brady United clocks US gunshot victims at 117,345 per year or 0.035 of the population (321 victims a day).

I suspect our poster Shon was computing that one of his 400 Americans in a room (I presume folks in the US) was getting shot every year and misspoke / forgot to carry the one. It's too easily detectable speaking to communities that will be eager to apply skepticism and dismiss the post in entirety.

[–] cro_magnon_gilf@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

There are 400 people. Yet the 2 trans people are all you talk about. Goes both ways

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[–] zepheriths@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (15 children)

I don't want to be that guy but 8 billion divided by 400 is 20 million. So to get a global average you would multiply the number here by 20 million.... 20 million people are not shot every day

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[–] qwertyWarlord@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

Why would I be in the same room? Ew, I'm going back in my gated community and calling the cops

[–] nikscha@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So after 400 days everyone is dead?

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Single GSWs aren't THAT deadly. Quick Google shows about 20%. So after 2000 days everyone is dead, assuming we're not replacing them ever.

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[–] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago

Probably before. I'd wager people without heath insurance might succumb to illness, mentally unstable might commit suicide, homeless might freeze to death

[–] Johandea@feddit.nu 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not every gun shot wound is fatal.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

That doesn't make the number much better... That is a lot of people being shot. And it says at least which means it's the lower bound? I support the message, but can't we deliver the message without making stuff up?

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[–] greenmarty@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I could also write this but like 2 trans people decided to ruin life of 10 others each round. And factual value would be about the same.
I'm sick of those victimize everything agendas to be honest.

[–] Cannacheques@slrpnk.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I prefer to meet trans people in person to get to know them and judge them based on their actions like any other person rather than what I believe is on their minds.

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[–] crackajack@reddthat.com 4 points 1 year ago

This is what you get when you dumb down people.

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