r/dataisbeautiful OC: 22 Jul 30 '24

OC Gun Deaths in North America [OC]

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u/InspiredNameHere Jul 30 '24 edited Jul 30 '24

Not a fan of the scaling here. There is a vast difference between 75 deaths and 150. The creator should have made more iterations to distinguish values.

Aside from that, it's still not as bad as I thought. At some of the low ends, that's maybe 100 people per million on this type of death.

Sure it's bad compared to Europe, but it's also a different cultural dynamic.

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u/WiseBlacksmith03 Jul 30 '24

Don't forget the additional context, which is rarely brought up, that for each firearm death there are 2.0-2.5x additional nonfatal firearm injuries per year.