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Originally Posted by Resolute 14
The reason these become rallying points is because our society only really functions if we learn from our past mistakes to mitigate or prevent repeats.
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Well, no, they work as rallying points because our brains are not properly evolved to process meaningful sample sizes as such, so one girl getting shot is much more impactful than 9,000 gun homicides per year. In this case, your argument, which seems pretty practical, is "if a tragedy can spur change for the better, who cares what the underlying reasons are - good results are good results".
Which isn't always true in the case of knee-jerk reactions to statistically irrelevant events like this one, but at least where it is we might as well make the best of it, I guess?