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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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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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3 points

Then why choose 400 people, or why include the shooting stat once they went with 400? The number would very much round down to zero, and the post says at least 1 person per day which means that’s the lower bound

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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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