ID: stevens_bad_advice posted: “Fun fact, if billionaires got shot as often as school children, we’d run out of billionaires in 2 months.”

  • ryedaft
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    5 days ago

    Let’s see if we can’t figure this out.

    In 2021, 54% of all gun-related deaths in the U.S. were suicides (26,328), while 43% were murders (20,958), according to the CDC. The remaining gun deaths that year were accidental (549), involved law enforcement (537) or had undetermined circumstances (458).

    The FBI collects data on “active shooter incidents,” which it defines as “one or more individuals actively engaged in killing or attempting to kill people in a populated area.” Using the FBI’s definition, 103 people – excluding the shooters – died in such incidents in 2021.

    The Gun Violence Archive, an online database of gun violence incidents in the U.S., defines mass shootings as incidents in which four or more people are shot, even if no one was killed (again excluding the shooters). Using this definition, 706 people died in these incidents in 2021.

    Citation: What the data says about gun deaths in the U.S. | Pew Research Center - https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/

    None of these numbers really seem to add up to what’s in the meme.

    Edit: although, what if we killed one billionaire for every school kid that got shot, whether the child died or not. That might work?

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      5 days ago

      If 706 billionaires were killed by school mass shooters this year leaving 756-706=50 I bet those 50 would become model contributing citizens

    • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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      5 days ago

      None of these numbers really seem to add up to what’s in the meme.

      Edit: although, what if we killed one billionaire for every school kid that got shot, whether the child died or not. That might work?

      if billionaires got shot as often as school children

      ^the meme beat you to it lol

      Though good job trying to find those numbers (genuinely)