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8 points

Not to mention one everyday would be 365 out of 400 every year. Clearly, ~90% of the population isn’t getting shot every year.

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7 points

Shot doesn’t mean dead and one person can receive multiple gunshot wounds in a year.

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4 points

Yes. Still, 90% of the population isn’t getting shot every year and a couple of people aren’t going to make up for it with multiple gunshot wounds.

That being said, whatever the real percentage is, it’s still too high

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2 points

Oh, yes, 1 in 400 is still the wrong proportion, but I guess you can’t say a quarter of a person is shot every 8 months or whatever it would be, if you’re just trying to make a quick and concise point.

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4 points

That still means everyone in the US is shot in just over a year. That’s not right

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7 points

There’s just one poor unlucky guy who drives the average up. Keeps surviving though

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5 points

Bullet wounds Goreg, who spends his free time insulting people with guns and is shot 10,000 a day, was an outlier and should not have been counted.

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