Posted on 04/11/2023 7:32:31 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Nearly one in five adults in the US say they have a relative who was killed by a gun, a disturbing new study revealed Tuesday.
The troubling statistic included death by suicide, according to the report from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
A similar amount – 21 percent – of respondents said they had been personally threatened with a gun.
The study also found that people of color were disproportionately impacted by gun violence, with three in 10 black adults and one-fifth of Hispanic respondents saying they have witnessed someone being shot.
Thirty-four percent of black adults reported having a family member who was killed by a firearm, or two times the share of white adults who said the same.
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Maybe if the sample pool was outside city centers....?
I actually know someone who died in the recent Louisville bank shooting.
I will continue to be well armed. That case seems to me at least in part driven by the mass insanity the Left is inflicting on the populace.
You left out “teens”.
Just going for completeness here.
Does German artillery in WW2 count?
Roughly speaking there are 300 million Americans and 30,000 total firearms deaths, all causes. One fifth of the US population is then 60 million, so in order for the title statement to be true in one year, the “family” size would need to be 60 million/30,000 = 2,000. For it to be true during a ten-year period, 200. Average age of death = 70, so if people are adults for 50 years, then the average family size must be about 40. Seems inflated, given that the average family has 2.4 kids. The title might be accurate if it included your third cousin, once removed, getting killed.
I don’t believe it. No frickin way Jose.
I had a relative who was killed by a train about 90 years ago. Nobody killed by a gun though.
Despicable headline.
If 1 in 5 Americans has a family member killed by gun violence, how many tens of millions of Americans have been shot dead?
Nearly one in five adults in the US say they have a relative who was killed by a gun,
= = =
How close a relative?
A second cousin killed in Viet Nam, or Iraq?
A family of many fathers and children has one of them shot during a robbery?
BS.
That’d be 67 million deaths in the US from guns,
Unless they’re spreading this out over 70 years this study is BS.
“””Nearly one in five adults in the US say they have a relative who was killed by a gun”””
My take on the numbers,
1. About 330 million people in US
2. About 80% of people are adults or about 250 million
3. 20% have a relative killed by a gun or 50 million
4. Average gun deaths each year for past 70 years is about 30,000 or (70*30,000) total for the 70 years is about 2 million.
5. If each person who died by a gun had 25 relatives, then the numbers might be sensible. But how close are these relatives? parent, sibling, aunt, uncle, grandparent, first cousin, second cousin, etc, etc.
He killed himself next to her. It would have been exactly as sad if had killed her with a knife or a hammer.
My only family member that didn’t die from a medical condition, died from a lightning strike.
I am going back about 4 generations on both sides.
My take on the numbers,
Well, are they counting people whose relatives got shot during a war? Because then I’d believe it.
“The study also found that people of color were disproportionately impacted by gun violence...”
No, “people of color” disproportionately inflict gun violence on everyone else. They are probably impacted exactly proportional to the amount of gun violence that their group commits.
Report says 55% is by suicide. I do have a family member that committed suicide with a gun 50 years ago.
Maybe they’re using the Arthur Kellerman standard for “friends and family”, when rival gang members murder each other, that’s “acquaintances” which is practically the same as “friends” which might as well be “family”.
There are 5x more people killed by fentanyl then killed by guns.
There are 2x time more people killed by the car accidents than by guns.
Yet that’s OK
People are usually related to more than one person.
“””My cousin was shot and killed 20 some years ago.”””
My uncle accidently shot himself in the hand in 1949—did not die.
Just wait for the next study that looks into family members who have been shot but not killed.
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