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Please don't make criticisms unduly personal.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11464135 and marked it off-topic.

No need to respond so harshly; it's entirely plausible that English isn't his/her first language.

Also, they asked if they were interpreting that correctly. If you're not American, you probably don't have an intuitive sense for how common guns are. Best I can find about 30% of households have a gun. There also seems to be a pretty wide disparity about where those households are. Mother Jones, so maybe not an ubiased source of information: http://www.motherjones.com/files/gun-ownership-map-updated.p...

In the graphic it's worded as "88.8 per 100 people" which can easily be mistaken for 88.8% because it doesn't state that it's 88.8 firearms, not 88.8 people.

"Gun ownership: 88.8 per 100 people" -> 88.8 guns owned per 100 people.