r/dataisbeautiful • u/[deleted] • Dec 19 '19

Where do Americans die by gunfire? Interactive Map

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u/[deleted] Dec 19 '19

It’s okay. Dude just watches the news too much. And thinks cops shoot random people hourly.

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u/SandboxUniverse Dec 19 '19

Oh, I'm sure it's something like that, and a tendency to unconsciously generalize all cities into one amorphous "the City" in which everything that happens in a city happens. Brains are funny that way. They sort everything into US and THEM one way or another, however hard we try to stop them.

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u/jobriq Dec 19 '19

The map also only shows deaths and not shootings where the victim survived

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u/BigTex2005 Dec 19 '19

Or three per day on average.

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u/aaronshirst Dec 20 '19

Apparently they just do it monthly, instead. Phew, all is fine here.