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Wow, a two-fer!
Conservatives love to quote the statistic that many blue counties have a higher total number of gun deaths than red counties. What they hope you don't notice is that those blue counties are also the most populous. If you normalize the statistics per capita, those blue counties become far and away the safest areas of the country. The deep south has the highest rate of gun violence per capita.
Edit: Capita, not capital (my keyboard keeps changing it)
You mean "per capita" (per head, i.e., per person).
Gun violence "per capital" (gun violence divided by number of capital cities) wouldn't do much except make these six countries look good in comparison since they get to divide by a number larger than one.
If you think for one instant they're not using "Democrats" as a code word, then you don't understand racists.
what the fuck are they talking about
Here are the premises that led to this:
- All black people are Democrats.
- All criminals are Democrats.
- All shootings are done by people easily categorized in one of the above groups.
None of this is true, but it's what led here.
"90% sounds like a big, believable number, right? Let's go with that!"
The meme is talking about "gang violence", an oft quoted stat. While largely true, it can also be a racist dog whistle.
I commented on it here:
That hair is criminal
God, this reminds me of something that just happened last week. I got a letter in the mail from the HR outsourcing company an old job used. They got hacked and my personal info was leaked. I mentioned it to my mom, and she said something like "I can't wait for democrats to all die so shit that that stops happening.".
...Fucking what?
I'm about to start, should I save the ammo and let climate change do the trick instead?
Regular though in my head ( dw I'm from a no guns country)
The other 10% are conservative... It's not 0 like you suggest, math isn't hard.
c/lostlemmings
Not only did you miss the point of the post, but you didn't understand the crux of the fallacy being made by the person in the image.
The person who made the post is against the argument in the image. They made this post to ridicule the argument being made in the image.
The issue with the argument being made in the image is that it ignores gun violence per capita, which is a much more meaningful descriptor rather than raw numbers.
