What a messed up country.

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[–] 26 points 10 months ago
[–] 6 points 10 months ago

Natural selection

Their offspring will be better equipped than most at evading a shooting

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago

    Damn, this is how I learned about the shooting at all

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago

    I know the US doesn't allow internal studying of gun violence statistics because reasons but I feel like we can start making some disturbing extrapolations based on the extremely disturbingly high number of people who've survived MULTIPLE school shootings at this point.

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago (2 children)

    May I ask where you are from OP?

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    [–] 58 points 10 months ago (19 children)

    statistically speaking, this was bound to come up at some point. And frankly will likely come up more frequently as time goes on. "If you don't change where you are going, you will get where you are headed.", Yogi Berra, maybe.

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  • [–] 20 points 10 months ago (12 children)

    There's a similar and related math problem for this:

    How many people do you need in a room before 2 of them share a birthday?

    The answer is around 50, which is way less than most people expect.

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  • [–] 16 points 10 months ago* (10 children)

    At 50 people is is 97% likely and at 60 people it is 99% likely.

    So not guaranteed, but surprising if nobody shares a birthday.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem

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  • [–] 1 point 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (8 children)

    I think the question is usually frames as "how many people does it take to make it at least 50% likely that two people will share a birthday", or more likely than not etc.

    A guarantee would need 366 people. But most people are satisfied with "more likely than not", "90% chance", or "99% chance".

    EDIT: I meant 367, not 366!

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  • [+] -8 points 10 months ago (6 children)

    366 would not guarantee it. That's not how probability works. You cannot guarantee a shared birthday without selecting people. And not to mention, birthdays aren't evenly distributed.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    Once you have more people than days in a year it's not about statistics anymore

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    366 people wouldnt guarantee no shared birthdays though. There could still be one leap year baby in that bunch. But what are the odds in that?

    2.6 • 10^-158 , if anyone is curious.

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    If you assume one mass shooting every three days for the last 15 years, and there being 1700 people "present" for each (within earshot, not necessarily immediately in danger), there are now over 3 million people who have now been present for shootings.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    We've had several times to re-evaluate how we deal with firearms in this nation, and here we are more than a quarter century after Columbine and nothing has changed.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago* (3 children)

    The genie's out of the bottle now, you can't feasibly take all the guns away anymore. Best you can do is improved gun control for NEW firearm sales, and perhaps buyback programs. But your countrymen will never accept being disarmed forcibly. Plus with all the shit going on, perhaps it's time for more left-leaning people to arm themselves too. Idk, I'm not from around there.

    Now the question is what to do next. A sane country would invest in mental health, generally improving people's overall well-being (health, financial, etc), and rooting out all the right-wing propaganda.

    The USA is not that country.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    A sane country would invest in mental health

    Bro just give people a reason to get up in the morning and this won't happen.

    The problem is they feel like they have nothing to lose and want to take their anger out on society.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago*

    I mean that is also indirectly an investment in mental health, just not directly in mental health services.

    But I don't think it's JUST the "nothing left to lose" mentality. If it was, you'd see more rich people being shot. There's a huge factor of the "nothing left to lose" people being indoctrinated into hating other people like themselves instead of the rich.

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    [–] 27 points 10 months ago

    US uni first years meeting each other soon: So how many shootings did you have at your school?

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  • [–] 19 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    The US approach to preventing mass shootings is apparently to develop herd immunity

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago

    Jiminy Cricket I can’t believe this is where we’ve ended up and it’s not constant pressure from all politicians to fix this. Obligatory Onion:

    https://theonion.com/no-way-to-prevent-this-says-only-nation-where-this-regularly-happens-2/

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  • [–] 8 points 10 months ago

    I know the US doesn't allow internal studying of gun violence statistics because reasons but I feel like we can start making some disturbing extrapolations based on the extremely disturbingly high number of people who've survived MULTIPLE school shootings at this point.

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  • [–] 3 points 10 months ago

    I suppose we could do something about gun violence here, but for now I'm just making sure that I don't go to school with Tretta and Weissman.

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