• Ookami38@sh.itjust.works
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      Single GSWs aren’t THAT deadly. Quick Google shows about 20%. So after 2000 days everyone is dead, assuming we’re not replacing them ever.

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        Birthrate in the US is about 1.1% per year. You’d need a lot of immigrants to replace the workforce.

        Maybe there’s a group of people who get shot more than once, and they get included multiple times. That would skew the statistic.

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      Probably before. I’d wager people without heath insurance might succumb to illness, mentally unstable might commit suicide, homeless might freeze to death

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      Hah, yea, I did a fact check above but left gunshots out. Shot doesn’t equal death and rotating the 400 people solves your comment, but I didn’t trust the stats enough to include it. Everything else checks out, though.

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        That doesn’t make the number much better… That is a lot of people being shot. And it says at least which means it’s the lower bound? I support the message, but can’t we deliver the message without making stuff up?

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        True. But assuming I’m part of that population statistically I’d be shot after at most 400 days. Definitely not a population I’d wanna live in.