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Factor of 20? Who's exaggerating now? If the linked incident happened on Monday, we could perhaps extrapolate that this happens perhaps once every four days, so that's a factor of four.

Seriously, though, maybe this is just a local colloquialism or language barrier thing, but to me, the phrase "everyday occurrence" doesn't mean "something that literally happens every day", it means "something that is common and happens often".



In my comment below I liked to a WP article the gives a rate of 15 per year (almost all self-shootings) Once per day would be 24.33 times as frequent.

Your method of "extrapolating" is innumerate.




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