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Originally Posted by Flames in 07
How is that relevant. Just because you can't stop lighting you believe why try to stop shootings?
Besides, are lighting strikes up significantly vs 10 years ago?
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I was pointing out that mass shootings in the USA are actually fairly infrequent relative to the overall population and while tragic, we should be careful about sensationalizing them into some kind of trend that really isn't there.
In general, you really do have a greater chance of being hit by a lightning bolt than you do of dying in a mass shooting.
I'm an advocate of better gun control standards and the abolition of semi and automatic weapons by the way. I find the gun culture in the USA fairly appalling.
On the other hand, given the population size, you might still have the same frequency of mass shooting incidents as you do now even if fewer people owned guns.
Cowperson