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Originally Posted by nfotiu
It's not that I'm anti-gun control (I'm not), I just put mass shootings in that same category as terrorist attacks, shark attacks, and plane crashes as things that get too much attention and generate way too much fear when they have such an insignificant chance of happening. Putting in policy for a country of 300 million based on something that impacts what about 100 lives a year at most, is not always a good idea.
I'd be more inclined to move from my apathetic stance if the talk was about policies designed to address more common acts of violence such as poor people dying at the hands of other poor people and domestic violence.
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The US averages more than on Mass Shooting a day:
http://www.businessinsider.com/us-av...per-day-2015-8