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[–] BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works 90 points 1 day ago (5 children)
[–] echolalia@lemmy.ml 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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)

[–] AccountMaker@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 day 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

[–] Jakeroxs@sh.itjust.works 2 points 16 hours ago

Would still make more sense if it was reversed lol

[–] tetris11@lemmy.ml 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 26 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 29 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Look at the scale one the left.

(It’s upside down)

[–] oxideseven@lemmy.ca 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I know :)

my reply was in disbelief.

[–] AtariDump@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago
[–] kogasa@programming.dev 6 points 1 day 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

[–] Ashen44@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 day ago (1 children)

there's actually no fucking way

[–] Signtist@lemm.ee 18 points 1 day ago

I almost missed the scale on the left. Almost.