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Originally Posted by corporatejay
care to elaborate? Not disagreeing, genuinely curious.
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For one thing, they start by quoting comments by Obama and Reid about the frequency of these incidents, then tried to refute those claims by using an entirely different set of criteria - death rate per million people instead of number of incidents - and then compound the disingenuous nature of the comparison by cherry picking the same data with a specific period of time. They then double down by cherry picking a
second time by using some unknown definition of "public shooting".
According to the mass shooting tracker, 287 people have died in mass shootings in the US this year. Given the population estimate of 324 million, that brings us to 0.885 deaths per million people for
one half of 2016 alone. That they created a twisted set of data that tries to argue the actual rate was one tenth that rate over a period 12 times longer tells you what you need to know about the validity of this chart.
BTW, using their figures, that six year span put Canada at 1 death and two mass shootings. Two mass shootings in Canada over that span, and they format the chart to try and make Canada appear comparable to the American situation.