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Originally Posted by Azure
I certainly don't agree with the premise of his argument that more guns automatically equal less crime, but he went to extremes to prove that gun bans don't make any difference.
2 million incidents a year, out of 300 million people, and you somehow get an incident every 13 seconds? How come that doesn't sound right?
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Well cause your math is off.
JUSt because the percentage is low, doesn't mean the overall number is.
I agree, it's under 1%, but in 300 mill, that's a large number, well lets check the numbers.
60*60*24*365=31,536,000 seconds in a year.
Now an incident occurs 1 out of thirteen of those supposedly.
So 2,425,846 incidents a year.
Pretty close.
EDIT: Coincidently, it is way closer to 15 seconds depend on how close you rounding or the stat of 2 million incidents is.
Still, 4 times a minute... and only 2 seconds less that the 13