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[–] [email protected] 18 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I haven't actually done the math, but by percentages I think they are probably fairly close.

[–] MidsizedSedan 9 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Its not hard to look up school shooting fatalities, but it would be depressing

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago (1 children)

In total, you'd only need four numbers:

The total number of school aged children
The number of school aged children who died due to violent crime
The total number of billionaires
The total number of billionaires who died due to violent crime

[–] Unlearned9545 2 points 4 days ago

Rate could mean over time or percentage of. I think OP was thinking of time, in which case your wouldn't need the total number of schoolchildren. Just divide the population of billionaires by the number of schoolchildren that die by violent crime per year.

[–] MidsizedSedan 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Welp that sucked.

69 deaths in 2024 (323 school shootings in 1 year. More school shootings than school days. What are you doing there?)*

And

400+ billionaires the poorest is 3.3B

So 2024 had 1 Billionare death, at this rate, we need 399 more years...

*I forgot to add. Both this source and me are not american. Feel free to correct me with a more local source

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

More numbers for people to play with. "Since 1999, 440 people have been killed and 1,243 injured in shooting events at K-12 schools."

https://www.security.org/blog/a-timeline-of-school-shootings-since-columbine/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago

If I'm reading the hypothetical right, it's saying what if in a year, the numbers were reversed... 323 $hootings with 69 deaths, versus 1 school shooting with 1 death.

Would gun laws change, would tax laws change? Etc etc. Would minimum wage change?

Purely hypothetical of course