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[-] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 132 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Posting this at top level since its burried in replies:

Fact time. You don't always die when shot, and the US is a baby factory. I can't find good stats on non-lethal gunshot, so I'll do the rest.

Verdict: Pretty accurate.

  • 8.4% without health insurance (33 in 400)
  • 11.5% poverty rate (46 in 400)
  • 20% adults at or below literacy level 1 (80 in 400)
  • 57% mental illness untreated (228 in 400) (requires math from NIH source)

References:

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 15 points 8 months ago

Here's a good study on gunshoot statistics thay include nonletal gunshot wounds:

https://www.theactuarymagazine.org/firearm-risk/

[-] Eiim@lemmy.blahaj.zone 21 points 8 months ago

Which comes out to about 1/7 of a person in that room being shot per year.

[-] cantsurf@lemm.ee 8 points 8 months ago

But its not as shocking if I say that there are a million people in the room and one gets shot per day! (But I mean, that still seems significant to me.)

In their example, almost everybody is getting shot every year. Happy birthday, BLAM!

[-] Frozengyro@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

Yea, if 1/400 people were shot a day, nearly everyone would have been shot by the time they were 2.

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