Apparently the rate is 125 killed by a gun and 200 shot and wounded per day. I don’t know how that would extrapolate from the total population down to 400 people but you are correct that it is, in fact, much less than one.
Of those 125 “killed by a gun”, 91 of the “victims” pulled the trigger themselves. There’s about 34 gun murders per day in the US.
If you’re looking for a population where one person is murdered daily, you need to start with about 10,440,000 people.
The problem isn’t that people are killing themselves. The problem is desperation. For far too many in our dystopian society, death is the brightest hope that some will ever see. The solution to gun suicide is unfucking this massive shitstained clusterfuck, not depriving the desperate of their 9mm retirement plans.
That number seems quite realistic when considering it as over the course of a life time, i.e. over the course of your life time you have a 1 in 400 chance of being shot.
Only one getting shot per day? Fuckin’ rookie numbers!
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That seems high even by US standards. After a year, basically everyone would be dead.
Apparently the rate is 125 killed by a gun and 200 shot and wounded per day. I don’t know how that would extrapolate from the total population down to 400 people but you are correct that it is, in fact, much less than one.
https://everytownresearch.org/report/gun-violence-in-america/
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Alternately, if you do it by time instead of size, one person gets shot about every seven years.
Of those 125 “killed by a gun”, 91 of the “victims” pulled the trigger themselves. There’s about 34 gun murders per day in the US.
If you’re looking for a population where one person is murdered daily, you need to start with about 10,440,000 people.
The problem isn’t that people are killing themselves. The problem is desperation. For far too many in our dystopian society, death is the brightest hope that some will ever see. The solution to gun suicide is unfucking this massive shitstained clusterfuck, not depriving the desperate of their 9mm retirement plans.
Why per day? It being trans counted per day?
That number seems quite realistic when considering it as over the course of a life time, i.e. over the course of your life time you have a 1 in 400 chance of being shot.
It literally says it in the post?
Ok, fine, I overread that, but it still doesn’t make sense to compare that on such vastly different time scales.
Take it up with @gayblackvet?