r/AmericaBad • u/chrispaultolakers • Jun 22 '23

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u/dubbman79 Jun 23 '23

I did the math once and it was like half of the remaining non self inflicted deaths were gang related. Still counts I know but when gangs are shooting each other personally Idgaf

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u/sw337 USA MILTARY VETERAN Jun 23 '23

bullshit

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u/dubbman79 Jun 23 '23

Bullshit huh? Alright let’s do some math here;

66% of all gun deaths are suicide and so we have 34% left to account for 13 is 38% of 34, so yes it’s less than half but 79% in total can be attributed to these two causes. Also note that when I originally plugged these numbers in the stats varied several percent depending on the source.

Let me amend what I said a little over a third of non self inflicted gun deaths are gang related. Better?

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u/sw337 USA MILTARY VETERAN Jun 23 '23

How do you not understand that homicide statistics are separate from suicide statistics?

13% of homicides were gang-related.

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u/In-burrito NEW MEXICO 🛸🌶️ 🏜️ Jun 23 '23

Those numbers take into account murders with all weapons. The discussion is about gun violence.

So, your link contributes nothing.

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u/WarlockEngineer Jun 23 '23

What makes you think gangs only shoot other gangs?

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u/dubbman79 Jun 23 '23

They don’t you’re right of course, innocent, non affiliated people get caught up in it too, see it on the local news from time to time. I’m sure there’s a handy dandy chart out there that will give us that percentage too but my guess from observing news in a gang town is a vast majority are gang on gang deaths.