Gun violence is NOT NORMAL

[DanTex]

80. And it keeps getting worse.

0.4/100K is not the same thing as 0.4%, no matter how much you try to run away from this point.

But here's a more subtle point that you also don't understand. "0.4" by itself doesn't give any information about how big the difference is, and this is because the units (crimes per 100k people) are completely arbitrary. If we measured in crimes per 1M, then this would be a difference of "4". You just picked "0.4" because it's a small-looking number. The more meaningful and correct way to describe the difference is in relative terms.

For example, if my car goes 0.4 MPH faster than yours, that's no big deal. But if my snail goes 0.4 MPH faster than yours, that is a big deal. Because 0.4 MPH is much larger relative to the speed of a snail than of a car.

I know this all seems very confusing, but if you think about it for a few hours, you'll figure it out...

And when you're done with that, take a few more courses in statistics, you'll finally be at the point where you can read those epidemiological and econometric studies that I linked to above, to see how to systematically analyze data rather than write down numbers that look small in order to suit your political agenda.