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Do you have a license for that 3D printer?

  • Nate Cox@programming.devEnglish
    29·
    2 days ago

    …ghost gun shootings have risen 1,000% across the nation

    From what, and to what? I loathe when I see percentage based metrics because they’re so incredibly easy to manipulate.

    Until proven otherwise I’m going to assume that there was 1 and now there are 10. That’s 1000% increase for sure, but I’m not sure 10 instances is worth sweeping legislation.

    “1000% increase” sure does sound scary though.

      • Nate Cox@programming.devEnglish
        17·
        2 days ago

        In total, police submitted 1,922,5771 crime guns to ATF for tracing between 2017 and 2021.

        That number does not make sense, it’s either 19M or 1.9M. Let’s be generous and assume that trailing 1 was a typo (consistent with the commas).

        This would mean ghost guns accounted for 0.01% of all the gun traces. A number so negligible as to be irrelevant.

        I’m standing by the “raised by 1000%” being a bit of sensationalism.