(February 18, 2022 at 4:05 am)FlatAssembler Wrote:The Grand Nudger Wrote:Can't be bothered to check the stats for notheristan, but that's not the case in the us, or even close to it.Well, the fact is that the estimates of how many lives are saved by guns each year tend to be around the order of magnitude bigger than the estimates of how many people are killed by guns each year. The estimates that guns save around 3 million people per year are probably bullshit. But so are the estimates that it is less than 50'000 per year. The estimates that guns save 300'000 people per year in the US are probably close to the truth, don't you think?
Where do these estimates come from? How are they collected? What is the methodology for determining if a gun saves a life? Why are the high and low estimates 'bullshit'?
Boru
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