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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Yeah, and on every one of those days 3000 people in the US died from preventable causes, and I bet a whole lot of those have equally sad circumstances behind them. I have no love for guns, would never own one, and would be just fine is someone took them all away. But the fact is mass shooting are just not statistically significant and even if you eliminated all of them, you aren't really making the country any safer in any kind of measurable way.
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I get what you're saying, but those other deaths aren't utterly senseless like mass shootings are. And I can't imagine America's deathrate for those other "preventable causes" is that much different from most western countries, whereas obviously the gun homicide rate in America is astronomically higher than any other western country.