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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by mettamage on Thursday September 16, 2021 @04:44PM (#28557311)
> 4.96/100,000 for 2012

So...

5 * 20 years = 100

So living in the US for 20 year means that the people murdered by guns are very roughly estimated at 1 person per 1000.

That's about as twice as high of a chance as dying from the flu [1].

[1] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1127799/influenza-us-mor...

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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by inter_netuser on Thursday September 16, 2021 @11:39PM (#28560936)
Which means guns are 500% safer than COVID-19?
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Re:Women are nearly half of new gun buyers, study finds by mettamage on Friday September 17, 2021 @01:39AM (#28561657)
Well, considering that people live on average 80 years, I'd upperbound it to 4/1000 instead of 1/1000. Also I wouldn't call "dying less" a way to frame safety when talking about these type of chances.

So I guess Covid is twice to 4 times as deadly? I mean it's a very rough estimation and clearly I haven't considered everything. But ballparking it like this, I'd be inclined to say so.

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