Mass shooting in Australia

[StoneHendge]

SH:

Can you explain the numbers for everyone, please?

LR55

Sure!

Australia had a population of 24.1 million in 2016 (latest I could find). The USA had a population of 323.4 million in 2016. Thus, Australia has a population of that is 7.452% of the USA. Or there are 13.419 Americans for every Australian.

Thus, giving equal weight to each individual on a percentage of population basis, having 7 people killed in a mass shooting in Australia is equivalent to having 93.9 people killed in a mass shooting(s) in the US. Parkland, Las Vegas and Sutherland had 103 combined (including the shooters for this calculation since the MSM likes to always include the shooter to inflate the death toll).

Utilizing the data from Gun Violence Archive, there have been a total of 6 "mass shootings" thus far in the US in 2018 where 4 victims not including the shooter were killed. The deaths totaled 37 not including the shooters. Weighting the 6 non shooter deaths in Australia for population, that is the equivalent of 80.94 in the US. Thus during 2018 year to date, you were 2.19 times more likely (80.94/37) to be killed by a mass shooter in Australia than in the US. Put another way, 0.00002489627% of Australians have been killed in mass shootings thus far in 2018. Comparatively, "only" 0.00001144094% of Americans have been killed in mass shootings in 2018.

Statistics can be played with the generate any outcome you want (look at my example of the "global warming" above).

Also note that Mirriam Webster defines "mass" as:

3 a : a large body of persons in a group ·a mass of spectators

I don't think four victims qualifies as "mass" at all. Lets call it 6. Then you were almost 5 times (4.736) more likely to be killed in a "mass" shooting in Australia than the US thus far in 2018: (6*13.419) = 80.514 (population adjusted) vs 17 (Parkland).

Of course one could also argue that "mass" has different meanings in Australia than in the US

The leftists twist numbers to support their cause and so should we. After all, these are people that flat out ignore evidence on other subjects such as this:

C'mon Horde, you had to know I'd ultimately sneak that in sooner or later. Because even a former First "Lady" is entitled to go commando once in a while!
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