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Rule of 400 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

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[-] uriel238 13 points 1 year ago

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

[-] cjsolx@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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

[-] Trollception@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago

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 6 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.

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