rn = 2.5 years ago.

It's become even worse.

I wanted to look up the statistics for myself and see what the numbers are, given a room size scaled around 1 person dying from firearm related injury. I chose people dying from firearm injuries because I had a hard time finding a statistic for all people who were shot. If you are aware of better sources for my numbers (or a math error on my part), please let me know. I primarily used sources from the US government, but I recognize that those sources might not be completely transparent right now. Also, I don't mean for this to undermine the intention of the author here. Every issue mentioned is absolutely a problem in america, regardless of arbitrary comparisons. Also also, transgender people are valid and deserve rights regardless of how many people are shot per year.

Say you're in a room with 2,584,401 people. 206,752 don't have insurance. 273,947 live in poverty. 542,724 are illiterate. 596,996 suffer from mental illness. And every day at least 1 person dies from firearm related injury. But 21,192 are trans so you decided ruining their lives is a priority.

The population of the US was 341,140,964 on 12/31/24.

92% had health insurance in 2024.

10.6% lived in poverty in 2024.

79% were literate in 2013. (Hopefully there is a more recent source for this somewhere)

23.1% suffered from mental illness in 2022.

132 died from firearm-related injury daily in 2022. This is the number from the CDC, which is more generous than gunviolencearchive.

The number of injuries (including deaths) from the gunviolencearchive puts the daily count at 87 (I am rounding up despite 2024 being a 366 day leap year).

0.82% identified as transgender.

Don't worry, the fascists will be going after those with mental health issues next.

It's already starting.

In other news, the Kirk Memorial was basically a Nuremberg rally.

Wheee yaah... this is not looking good.

EDIT:

I would describe this youtuber as an actual, genuine centrist, not a crypto nazi, got a lot of sensible ideas and some ignorant ones... I use him as a barometer for basically non brain poisoned normies who have a college degree and a functioning brain, but also come from a blue collar area and are ... more culturally traditional.

Basically, a guy who is kinda problematic if you do a deep dive, but you could probably have a beer with and be reasonably good to ok friends with.

And he is in horror, reviewing Miller's speech.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KSYjqB_Q-8

The... original intent of his channel was a travel channel, showing people how US life compares to working and living overseas.

EDIT 2:

Large Man here missed this, but I will point out that Miller saying 'We are the storm' is an obvious Q Anon reference.

Like I said, he's not internet brain poisoned enough to know.

In a population of 400 people, 1 person is shot every day? So, by the end of one year, the population is down to 35 people?

If we extrapolate to the US population, we end up with 900,000 people murdered per day, or about 330 million people per year. That doesn't seem quite right.

It's called scapgoating.

The room has a >91.25% annual shooting rate?

I don't want to brag, but I've been living in the United States for 25 years and I haven't been shot once. If the room resets annually, my odds to this point were 3.55x10^-27. Am I the last American?

it's not really about trans being bad moreso that they feel tremendous shame for being the largest consumers of trans porn. A lot of the men on the right are closeted as hell.

Not diagnosed, diagnosed, or self reported as mentally ill? Seems low.

Err, that's a nice little quip but that bit about shooting isn't even remotely close to reality.

Example: There's about 80,000 - 100,000 gun related injuries in the USA per year. That's about 250 people getting shot each day. However, we are working against a population of ~330,000,000 in the USA. If you take the 100,000 / 333,000,000 = 0.0003. That's 0.0003 per year per person. So the chance of a person getting shot in a year in the USA is about 1 in 3,330.

To look at this in another way, the fellow said there's a group of 400 people and 1 is shot each day. That means in 1 year, nearly everyone in the room would have been shot, and in 2 years some people would be shot twice.

Look, the USA is pretty disgusting with some issues, but if you want to throw numbers around, at least make them accurate, otherwise it undermines the whole argument.

sounds like battle royale from hell