The 0.001% is a few magnitudes off. In 2018, there were ~15,500 murders in the US with spouses and family members in general being ~15% of those victims.
From that article: "Unfortunately, the number of murders is relatively small compared to the universe of violent crime, which makes it statistically challenging to analyze."
>Compared to the annual murder rate of 20,000 per year that seems negligible.
Why would that be an appropriate base rate, as opposed to, say, the number of farmers of any given origin murdered in any given nation (pick whatever you want for each)?
This doesn't agree with the FBI stats, and I'd prefer if you don't contaminate my arguments with 2nd Amendment nonsense. According to the FBI, gang kills are also a tiny cause of homicides. Killings of people by their own spouses are more common.
Doesn't that stat just mean that >99.9% of population has not been murdered. It says nothing to the number of people doing the murdering. It could be a single individual on a massive serial spree, or an individual murder per killing which I find just as unlikely. The point is, your stat isn't stating what you think it is
Here we go again with trying to make the number seem bigger.
It's 3 murders per 100,000 people. No, that isn't a lot to me. I'm completely fine and feel safe knowing I have a 0.000036 percent chance of being murdered next year.
A reasonable question, but barely relevant to the emotional reaction to this specific tragedy, which involved a single victim and presumably a single killer and is unlikely to have much effect on the overall percentages.
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