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When the 30 minute guarantee ended I had a recipient of my pizza delivery pull a gun on me when I refused to give a free pizza! (I handed it over) An anecdote I

When the 30 minute guarantee ended I had a recipient of my pizza delivery pull a gun on me when I refused to give a free pizza! (I handed it over) An anecdote I tell at parties

ta1243 3y ago
Have you managed to get out of Somalia? Or was it a favella in Rio?
- jajko 3y ago
  You act like most probable place for such an event, when discussing on HN, ain't simply some rural US. Some folks are crazy and vastly unbalanced, period. If they have access to guns, bad shit happens frequently. The amount of folks in US who legally own guns and never ever should be allowed to touch one is staggering.
- philipwhiuk 3y ago
  You're more likely to get killed using a gun in the US than Somalia (Somalia: 7.02 per 100K, US: 10.84 per 100K)
  - gruez 3y ago
    Source for those figures? Do they include suicides?
    - 15155 3y ago
      Yes, that figure is more than 50% suicides - this is a common statistical ruse.
      - ta1243 3y ago
        OK so US is 5.4 and Somalia is 7 "America -- slightly safer than Somalia!"
        15155 3y ago
        Are you regularly involved in inner-city gang violence? The United States is a big, diverse place.
        Kerb_ 3y ago
        Well, I'd assume Somalia has a non-zero number of firearm related suicides as well
  - 15155 3y ago
    More than 50% of that 10.84 consists of suicides - a fairly typical, convenient omission for folks with an agenda. "Get killed" would imply that "you" weren't the actor doing the killing. Somalia suicide rate: 7.90 per 100K United States suicide rate: 14 per 100K How many of these US and Somalia deaths are associated with organized crime?
    - AlexandrB 3y ago
      Considering the rate of "regret"[1] on failed suicide attempts, this isn't the slam dunk you think it is. [1] https://ennyman.medium.com/a-lesson-from-29-golden-gate-suicide-attempts-a42f4ef3f970 https://ennyman.medium.com/a-lesson-from-29-golden-gate-suic...
      - 15155 3y ago
        The original comment was: > You're more likely to get killed using a gun in the US than Somalia How is suicide or the regret thereof relevant to "getting killed?"

When the 30 minute guarantee ended I had a recipient of my pizza delivery pull a gun on me when I refused to give a free pizza! (I handed it over) An anecdote I tell at parties

ta1243 3y ago

Have you managed to get out of Somalia? Or was it a favella in Rio?

jajko 3y ago
You act like most probable place for such an event, when discussing on HN, ain't simply some rural US. Some folks are crazy and vastly unbalanced, period. If they have access to guns, bad shit happens frequently. The amount of folks in US who legally own guns and never ever should be allowed to touch one is staggering.
philipwhiuk 3y ago
You're more likely to get killed using a gun in the US than Somalia (Somalia: 7.02 per 100K, US: 10.84 per 100K)
- gruez 3y ago
  Source for those figures? Do they include suicides?
  - 15155 3y ago
    Yes, that figure is more than 50% suicides - this is a common statistical ruse.
    - ta1243 3y ago
      OK so US is 5.4 and Somalia is 7 "America -- slightly safer than Somalia!"
      - 15155 3y ago
        Are you regularly involved in inner-city gang violence? The United States is a big, diverse place.
      - Kerb_ 3y ago
        Well, I'd assume Somalia has a non-zero number of firearm related suicides as well
- 15155 3y ago
  More than 50% of that 10.84 consists of suicides - a fairly typical, convenient omission for folks with an agenda. "Get killed" would imply that "you" weren't the actor doing the killing. Somalia suicide rate: 7.90 per 100K United States suicide rate: 14 per 100K How many of these US and Somalia deaths are associated with organized crime?
  - AlexandrB 3y ago
    Considering the rate of "regret"[1] on failed suicide attempts, this isn't the slam dunk you think it is. [1] https://ennyman.medium.com/a-lesson-from-29-golden-gate-suicide-attempts-a42f4ef3f970 https://ennyman.medium.com/a-lesson-from-29-golden-gate-suic...
    - 15155 3y ago
      The original comment was: > You're more likely to get killed using a gun in the US than Somalia How is suicide or the regret thereof relevant to "getting killed?"