Every Picture Tells A Story

This is not a green square.  It’s a grid of green squares, separated by little black lines.

Each green square represents the proportion of privately-owned guns in America not used in a homicide.

The red square represents the proportion of privately-owned guns that are used in homicides.   Americans legally own close to 300 million guns; roughly 8,000 a year are used in homicides.  That’s about one quarter of one percent of one percent.

2 thoughts on “Every Picture Tells A Story

  1. You could show a similar image with the green squares representing total annual deaths and the red squares representing annual deaths due to terrorism.
    Just sayin’.

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