ID: stevens_bad_advice posted: “Fun fact, if billionaires got shot as often as school children, we’d run out of billionaires in 2 months.”
Looks like that page is worldwide billionaires. I thought it obvious that the meme was talking about Americans. A very quick Google search tells me that “there are 756 billionaires living in 43 of the 50 US states or Washington, D.C.” (and no billionaires in the last 8 states). That’s less than 13 per day.
Let’s see if we can’t figure this out.
In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (26,328), while 43% were murders (20,958), according to the CDC. The remaining gun deaths that year were accidental (549), involved law enforcement (537) or had undetermined circumstances (458).
The FBI collects data on “active shooter incidents,” which it defines as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.” Using the FBI’s definition, 103 people – excluding the shooters – died in such incidents in 2021.
The Gun Violence Archive, an online database of gun violence incidents in the U.S., defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people are shot, even if no one was killed (again excluding the shooters). Using this definition, 706 people died in these incidents in 2021.
Citation: What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S. | Pew Research Center - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/
None of these numbers really seem to add up to what’s in the meme.
Edit: although, what if we killed one billionaire for every school kid that got shot, whether the child died or not. That might work?
None of these numbers really seem to add up to what’s in the meme.
Edit: although, what if we killed one billionaire for every school kid that got shot, whether the child died or not. That might work?
if billionaires got shot as often as school children
^the meme beat you to it lol
Though good job trying to find those numbers (genuinely)
