And yet we're all wound up about so-called assault weapons and the NRA. Not meaning to take this on a political tangent, just using that as a current-events ex

And yet we're all wound up about so-called assault weapons and the NRA. Not meaning to take this on a political tangent, just using that as a current-events example of things we worry about and spend political capital on, that have really very little statistical impact. Compare the much, much larger number of deaths due to medical error, automobile accidents, etc.