• blind3rdeye@lemm.ee
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    9 days ago

    Idk sounds about right to me, 8%-8%. What do you expect, 8% of people carry so 50% of people have a gun on them at any given time? No, more like 8% of people have one at any given time, therefore 8% chance. Your figures seem off to me considering there are none, “nuh uh” isn’t a rebuttal.

    I’m saying that if 8% of people carry guns and there are 20 such people at a particular location, then the probability that someone in the group has a gun would be 1-(1-0.08)^20 which is around 80%. For 1 person, it’s 8%, for 2 people it’s 15%, and so on.

    But whatever. I can see you are firmly in the camp of ‘we need good people with guns to stop bad people with guns’ - a view that basically only exists where gun-violence is endemic.

    • ArcaneSlime@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      9 days ago

      Well unfortunately, there’s already 600,000,000 with no registry to know where, so those are staying. That puts your options at either protect yourself should you ever have to (hopefully, and likely, you never will) or don’t and just hope it all works out. Sure, in countries where there already aren’t guns I’m not saying they should get more, but they’re here to stay.

      And I know that if I were in a mass shooting and had to try and stop the shooter, I’d rather have one than not, idk about you.