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This basically never happens, about 100 people die a year in the US during a “burglary gone wrong”. People think it’s common, though; it’s the go-to cover story
by cmckn 10mo ago
This basically never happens, about 100 people die a year in the US during a “burglary gone wrong”. People think it’s common, though; it’s the go-to cover story in almost any Dateline episode.
- TiredOfLife 10mo agoThat's 100 times more than I thought.
- karlgkk 10mo agoThe us has a population of about 340,000,100. Notice where the 1 is.
- roncesvalles 10mo agoTangential but I think that's a terrible way of making your point because intuitively we don't look at digits of a numbers and think log scale. That looks more like 1/3 instead of 0.000029%.
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- BobbyJo 10mo agoYou thought only one person a year died during break ins gone wrong? Vending machines kill more than that.
- TiredOfLife 10mo ago[flagged]
- wewtyflakes 10mo agoThis logic does not follow from or to "That's 100 times more than I thought." You can be both horrified at something and also understand that it is thing that happens.
- IAmBroom 10mo agoLegalizing vending-machine concealed carry was our first mistake.
- red-iron-pine 10mo agoyou f around with a vending machine and it will f back... usually by falling on the poor shmuck
- sonotathrowaway 10mo agoGenuinely believing that only one person in America dies in a home invasion is hard to take seriously. I imagine most preteens in America have a better grasp of reality than the one you’re espousing here.
- Dayshine 10mo agoI just checked UK stats and from my reading of ONS's homicide data it's entirely possible it's around zero from burglary gone wrong. The us is only 5 times bigger
- IAmBroom 10mo agoIIRC hand guns are slightly harder to obtain in the UK. And also slightly less legal for civilians to own.