The U.S. has 4.43% of the world’s population and almost 42% of the world’s population of civilian-owned guns. Since not everyone is a gun owner, that means that the typical gun owner owns more than one. In fact, they own, on average, 6.6 guns each. Two-thirds of the guns in the U.S. are in the hands of 20% of the population. Gun ownership is correlated with both gun homicide and suicide. Accordingly, the US also haa the highest rate of gun violence of any developed country.
Day: June 16, 2016
The return of pigeon chess
Already more than two years ago, I stumbled across the concept of pigeon chess. Simply put, it comes from a quotation to the effect that “debating a (whoever) is like playing chess with a pigeon – it knocks over the pieces, shits on the board, then struts around and flies back to its flock to brag about how it won”
It’s still oh-so-relevant today.