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[โ€“] [email protected] 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.

[โ€“] [email protected] 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.