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.
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AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world 1 week agoI 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.
Nibodhika@lemmy.world 1 week ago
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.