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24% of US population is children. .3% are police officers. .4% are active duty military.

• perl4ever 8y ago
  Is pointing this out offensive for some reason?
  • happytoexplain 8y ago
    It's somewhat demeaning and antagonistic to accuse downvoters of being offended without some line of reasoning given. My guess is that the implication of your parent post is that the article is wrong to compare those numbers. Since there's nothing else in the curt reply, it seems to ignore the disturbing facts of the matter - a wrongness perhaps greater, in some readers' opinions, than the clickbaity headline, which is at least defensible in that it illustrates that child gun deaths have surpassed some arbitrary value, i.e. the numbers are large and rising (supposedly - I'm comparing the implied message of the headline to the implied message of your parent post, not commenting on the actual numbers on child gun deaths).
    • perl4ever 8y ago
      "It's somewhat demeaning and antagonistic to accuse downvoters of being offended without some line of reasoning given." Nobody accused downvoters of being offended. The comment was addressed to everybody, and wasn't an accusation. The issue I had with the headline is that it does not appear to be referring to "some arbitrary value", yet it is. Which is why it seemed appropriate to point out what that arbitrary value is.
• CompanionCuuube 8y ago
  There's a reason most population statistics use per-capita rather than raw numbers.