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Originally Posted by nfotiu
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.
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Tell the families of the victims of any of these shootings that they are statistically irrelevant.
Also, dying from disease (preventable or not) is a whole lot different than dying at the hands of some murderer. At least you got to live your life and make your own choices.
If you don't find the number of shootings to be of any concern, you are just burying your head in the sand. A modern civilization shouldn't have citizens killing eachother this way, this easily, this often.