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[–] nikscha@feddit.de 8 points 1 year ago (4 children)

So after 400 days everyone is dead?

[–] Ookami38@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] nikscha@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] agentshags@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 year ago

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

[–] fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.com 5 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] Johandea@feddit.nu 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not every gun shot wound is fatal.

[–] usualsuspect191@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] nikscha@feddit.de 1 points 1 year ago

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.