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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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[–] jeffhykin@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

"at least 1 out of 400 shot everyday"
365 shots per 400 people per year
or 9.1 shots per 1 person per decade

The AVERAGE American has over 9 gunshot wounds? Man things are getting bad in the US.

Note: The other statistics seem to mostly check out (see another guy's comment about that), which is great. It's just weird the gun one is so astronomically inaccurate.

[–] uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Yep. I addressed this in a reply. I think he was thinking 1/400 evey year and then forgot where he was in the thought process.