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Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda
It's the tired old adage of if you can't stop one type of preventable death, why bother trying to stop any at all
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Why focus on the .001 percent when you could focus on the 20 or 30 percent and actually make people safer, especially when this particular issue is likely one of the hardest and most costly to solve. I don't see it a whole lot different than all the money, fear and propaganda directed at terrorism when both mass shootings and terrorism are both things that you have virtually zero percent chance of dying from. Making policy decisions based on headlines from isolated incidents annoys me no matter which side of the argument. It is not a whole lot different than denying climate change because of a cold winter or believing that vaccines caused your child's autism.
I am for gun control and elimination of guns. I just don't like using tragic events like this as a rallying point.