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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Hmm, fun with percents! But if it happens in Canada, it is 1000% more likely to be you  so I'm glad I'm here!
http://content.usatoday.com/communit...1#.UMeBqGt5mSM
So doing some rough math, it looks like on average 35,000 people die in car wrecks every year vs an average of 10 in mass shootings. So to completely eliminate mass shootings would save the same number of lives as reducing .029% of traffic deaths. Which sounds more cost effective and practical? Heck, putting up a few traffic lights and a couple guard rails would save more lives than putting up checks tops and metal detectors in every public venue. |
Mass shootings draw all the attention, of course--but gun violence on a smaller scale is also a big problem in the US. I don't even live in a terribly dangerous city, and yet nearly every day on the news there is at least one report of a shooting. In more dangerous cities (Baltimore, Chicago, Detroit) those incidents are much higher. Those are also gun-related deaths and should be added to the conversation.
Not all car accidents are 20 car pileups, and not all gun-related events are mass shootings.