99.9 % of US gun owners never killed anyone yesterday
200,000,000 guns didn’t either
“99.9 % of US gun owners never killed anyone yesterday”
I think this statistical thing is the anchor of American society. It is true...99-percent of society have never shot or even aimed a weapon at anyone. When you do find people who say they have...they are typically former military or cops (probably in the 90-percent range). So you come to this group of .01-percent who are regular people who had an intruder in the house or someone threatening them in the parking lot.
But you can use the other statistics as well. If you live in Chicago, there’s a one in 10,000 chance that tonight while you fill your car up with gas at 11PM....you might get shot. If you were in Coos Bay, OR....at the gas station at 11PM, it’s a one in a billion chance that you will get shot.
If you hang out with Meth-heads....it’s a one in a thousand chance that you might get shot. If you hang around Jewish Rabbis, it’s probably a one in a trillion chance you will get shot.
If you are a non-believer, and hanging around 100 Muslims in the middle of Ramadan....with all of them holding pistols...what do you think your odds are then?
Assuming 80 million US gun owners, your percentage would mean that 80,000 people were killed yesterday. A more accurate percentage would be 99.999% or .999999 x 80 million equals 80 killings.