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.”

  • ShareMySims@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
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    5 days ago

    I didn’t dig too deep on the stats for school shootings (because oof), but thankfully we’re not there.

    The post says “shot” not “killed”. I’ve only done a superficial search, but looks like

    Each day 12 children die from gun violence in America. Another 32 are shot and injured.

    aource

    So the post is only off by what, a week or two?

    E: assuming that the 12 killed are also counted in the 32 shot, otherwise the meme is underestimating it. (E2: which, reading again, is an assumption I shouldn’t be making because it clearly says that another 32 are injured, so yeah, we’re there)

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      5 days ago

      yeah, the post says shot, not killed. but, it clearly implies that all of those who get shot end up dying because it also says “run out of billionares”

      if they most of them survive we wouldn’t even come close to running out of them in 2 months

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        5 days ago

        Or it could just as easily be “run out of billionaires to shoot”, or that the last hundred billionaires realise they’re next and surrender or or or…

        The point of the meme is clear, this pedantry seems like a ridiculous waste of energy. Knock yourselves out, I’m done lol