Comment on Why is gun violence lower in Switzerland than in the US?
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 week ago
According to a quick check on Wikipedia Switzerland has 27.6 firearms per 100 people, so in average you can expect 1 in 4 people to be armed. While the USA has 120.5 weapons per person, so you can expect in average that 1 in 5 people has an extra weapon besides the one 100% of the population does.
I think the 436% increase in weapon per capita might contribute to an increase with gun violence, but that’s just my guess.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 week ago
I think that should be 1.205 guns per person, or 120.5 guns per hundred people. I know we have some people with massive collections, but I’ve never met someone with literally 10s of thousands of guns. Also the people that own a few hundred are skewing the statistics. We aren’t actually all armed.
Omgpwnies@lemmy.world 1 week ago
120.5/100 == 1.205, it’s the exact same number expressed differently. However, 1.205 implies that everyone has at least one firearm, which is not true. 120.5/100 implies that if you go to 100 random people and count all their guns together, you’ll end up around 120 guns on average.
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 week ago
Sure, but they wrote 120.5 guns per person, and I don’t think we have a stockpile that amounts to 48,000,000,000 weapons. I could believe there are 480,000,000 privately owned weapons in the US, hence my correction/confusion.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 week ago
You’re correct, in one my edits before submitting I must have erased the 100 there and forgot to move the decimal place, thanks for pointing it out. The rest of the math was done considering the correct number, i.e. 1.2 weapon per person, it was just a wording mistake.