See, I told you he was mathematically illiterate...Blind groper wrote:To laklak
The math is simple. 100,000 Americans get shot each year (most survive). Average life span is a bit less than 80. Calculate.

See, I told you he was mathematically illiterate...Blind groper wrote:To laklak
The math is simple. 100,000 Americans get shot each year (most survive). Average life span is a bit less than 80. Calculate.
Blind groper wrote:To laklak
The math is simple. 100,000 Americans get shot each year (most survive). Average life span is a bit less than 80. Calculate.
He includes any injury caused by a firearm, whether intentional or accidental, and he fails to account for either criminal violence or criminals who tend to get shot more than once.piscator wrote:Blind groper wrote:To laklak
The math is simple. 100,000 Americans get shot each year (most survive). Average life span is a bit less than 80. Calculate.
Goddamn Battle of the Somme going on here!![]()
Nowhere near 100,000 Americans get shot ever year, much less in America.
Seth wrote:He includes any injury caused by a firearm, whether intentional or accidental, and he fails to account for either criminal violence or criminals who tend to get shot more than once.piscator wrote:Blind groper wrote:To laklak
The math is simple. 100,000 Americans get shot each year (most survive). Average life span is a bit less than 80. Calculate.
Goddamn Battle of the Somme going on here!![]()
Nowhere near 100,000 Americans get shot ever year, much less in America.
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Blind groper wrote:http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/01 ... erica?lite
I made it clear that the number 100,000 was those who took a bullet, and I even stated that most survived (see reference above). Deaths come from 10,000 murders and 12,000 suicides. However, very few of the survivors from the 100,000 were attempted suicides, since most such attempts with a gun (90%) result in death.
With 100,000 receiving a bullet every year, 320 million Americans, and an average lifespan of 80, that gives us a figure of 1 American in 40 receiving a bullet some time in their lives. However, I said 1 in 50, and that was deliberate, since some of those people will get a bullet through their body more than once. So 1 in 50 is a good estimate of the number of Americans who receive a bullet some time in their lives. So, no. I am not mathematically illiterate!
1 in 50 is a ridiculous number. That risk is far too high, and is a result of far too many guns in the USA, and far too little gun control.
If Americans treated guns the way they treated cars, things would be much better. You need a licence to drive a car, but anyone can buy a gun on the second hand market. You need training, and you need to follow a whole bunch of rules, which are strongly policed, if you drive a car. Not so with guns. Gun deaths, and the 100,000 each year who receive a bullet, would be numbers that would drop dramatically, if Americans treated guns the way they treat cars.
Blind groper wrote:To Piscator
As I have said before "rights" are simply the things that the people in charge permit ordinary people to do.
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