This basically never happens, about 100 people die a year in the US during a “burglary gone wrong”. People think it’s common, though; it’s the go-to cover story in almost any Dateline episode.
This basically never happens, about 100 people die a year in the US during a “burglary gone wrong”. People think it’s common, though; it’s the go-to cover story in almost any Dateline episode.
That's 100 times more than I thought.
You thought only one person a year died during break ins gone wrong? Vending machines kill more than that.
Legalizing vending-machine concealed carry was our first mistake.
you f around with a vending machine and it will f back... usually by falling on the poor shmuck
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This logic does not follow from or to "That's 100 times more than I thought." You can be both horrified at something and also understand that it is thing that happens.
Genuinely believing that only one person in America dies in a home invasion is hard to take seriously.
I imagine most preteens in America have a better grasp of reality than the one you’re espousing here.
I just checked UK stats and from my reading of ONS's homicide data it's entirely possible it's around zero from burglary gone wrong.
The us is only 5 times bigger
IIRC hand guns are slightly harder to obtain in the UK. And also slightly less legal for civilians to own.
The us has a population of about 340,000,100. Notice where the 1 is.
Tangential but I think that's a terrible way of making your point because intuitively we don't look at digits of a numbers and think log scale. That looks more like 1/3 instead of 0.000029%.