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Data speaks for itself (lemm.ee)
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[–] [email protected] 90 points 2 days ago (5 children)

May I add this classic?

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Fucking lol. I can't believe that shit's real and from Reuters of all places.

I couldn't find the graph on an original Reuters article (they must have gotten embarrassed and pulled it down lmao), but Business Insider still has it on their version of the article

(edit: and this is just time vs murders, not time vs gun deaths, a better statistic for this)

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I think the idea behind the graph was to make it look like blood flowing, but the execution was... not the best

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago

Would still make more sense if it was reversed lol

[–] [email protected] 27 points 2 days ago (1 children)

What the actual fuck

[–] [email protected] 28 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Look at the scale one the left.

(It’s upside down)

[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I know :)

my reply was in disbelief.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 days ago

I didn’t.

[–] kogasa 8 points 2 days ago

I thought at first the point was that murders had gone down because they were suddenly technically legal. The inverted scale thing is worse

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

that can't be real.... why would gun deaths go down after such a law is passed? I don't understand the world...

Edit: Oh I read the other comments. Yeah that scale is stupid.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

there's actually no fucking way

[–] [email protected] 19 points 2 days ago

I almost missed the scale on the left. Almost.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 days ago

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