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Dave Workman is an author, senior editor of Gun Week, communications director for the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, award-winning outdoor writer, former member of the NRA Board of Directors.
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YOU COULD BE MURDERED! (Or not if you're armed)

Fri Nov 18, 2022 6:57 am

Report: You Stand 1 Chance in 179 of Being Murdered; FBI ‘Buried’ Data

A careful study of murders last year by a non-profit research institute called Just Facts concluded earlier this month that a U.S. citizen faces 1-in-179 odds of being murdered in his/her lifetime, rather than dying of other causes.

https://www.ammoland.com/2022/11/report ... z7koTWQDo9

Re: YOU COULD BE MURDERED! (Or not if you're armed)

Fri Nov 18, 2022 7:37 am

1 in 5 people will die by heart disease.

That's 37x more probable.

Re: YOU COULD BE MURDERED! (Or not if you're armed)

Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:31 am

It's amazing how just simple changes to lifestyle mitigate risks of heart disease. Same applies to murder.

Re: YOU COULD BE MURDERED! (Or not if you're armed)

Fri Nov 18, 2022 8:46 am

The mathematics in this article are mind-boggling. How can 24,500 homicides in 2020 for 332 million people in the USA equal 1:179? Am I missing something?

Re: YOU COULD BE MURDERED! (Or not if you're armed)

Fri Nov 18, 2022 9:48 am

OhShoot! wrote:The mathematics in this article are mind-boggling. How can 24,500 homicides in 2020 for 332 million people in the USA equal 1:179? Am I missing something?


Probably....or something is missing. I only write about this stuff, I'm no math whiz or statistician.... :bigsmile:

Re: YOU COULD BE MURDERED! (Or not if you're armed)

Fri Nov 18, 2022 10:32 am

its 1,333 not 179
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