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Re:Gun sales rise in past year, especially among women and A... by michaelbrave on Monday March 15, 2021 @10:01AM (#26466180)
more people survive stabbings than shootings, and if someone was to say start stabbing on a school campus a lot less people would be stabbed than shot in a school shooting.
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Re:Gun sales rise in past year, especially among women and A... by MikeUt on Monday March 15, 2021 @12:45PM (#26468308)
Which is, as I said, exactly why counting homicides is not spin, and better than counting "stabbings" or "shootings" or "gun deaths". You look directly at the metric you care about (people killed), instead of intermediate metrics (people stabbed/shot) and trying to figure out how that translates to number of people killed.
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