President says ‘epidemic of gun violence is tearing our communities apart’ after mass shootings in Philadelphia, Fort Worth, Baltimore and Chicago

    • betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The loser of a knife fight dies in the street, the winner dies in the hospital.

      I don’t recall the origin of that or whether that’s the exact wording but the general idea at least has stuck with me.

      • WhiskyTangoFoxtrot@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        If you run away from a guy with a knife, you have to outrun the knife-wielder. If you run away from a guy with a gun, you have to outrun the bullet.

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        1 year ago

        That doesn’t mean what you think it means. You are not twice as likely to die form a stab wound, if you are treated quickly fort a stab wound you are much more likely to survive compared to a gunshot wound. You need to look at the incidence of death percentages:

        “(Gunshot wound: early, 2.0% vs. late, 4.9%; Stab wound: early, 0.2% vs. late, 1.1%)”

        So a stab wound if treated early has a 0.2% chance of death compared to a gunshot wound which has a 2% chance of death, meaning gunshots are 10 times as deadly. Under late treatment its 1% chance of death for stab wounds, and 4% for gunshots, so gunshots are 4 times as deadly.

        Even late treated stab wounds are half as deadly as early treated gunshots. Gunshots are far more deadly than stabbings.