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Rule of 400 (lemmy.blahaj.zone)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (14 children)

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:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (3 children)

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

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 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!

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