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"I will never fly on a plane. How can people keep flying when planes keep falling out of the sky every couple of months?"
by aianus 9y ago
"I will never fly on a plane. How can people keep flying when planes keep falling out of the sky every couple of months?"
- Avshalom 9y agoBut, they don't fall out of the sky every couple months, Americans DO die from guns every couple minutes though.
- lopmotr 9y agoPlanes absolutely do crash every couple of months, much more if you count private planes. Just like guns, you have to keep away from the "wrong places" to be safe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incidents_involving_commercial_aircraft#2017 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_accidents_and_incident...
- res0nat0r 9y ago...like your corporate office job at YouTube?
- thousandautumns 9y agoPlanes do fall out of the sky every couple months, especially when you consider small planes and non-commercial flights. Additionally, the gun deaths statistic is cherry picked. Two-thirds of those gun deaths are from suicide. Also, the overwhelming majority of those who die in gun related homicides are poor minorities, highly concentrated in poor communities, and tend to occur between people who know each other, rather than random deaths. Does America have a gun violence problem? Yes. Are guns a reason to be concerned for the average American, or someone like yourself who would move here? Not even remotely.
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- Slurpee99 9y agoYeah because those two statements are perfect analogies...
- aianus 9y agoOdds of dying in a jet crash are about 1 in 16 million per flight, odds of dying in a mass shooting in the US by living there for one year and doing random things and going random places are within an order of magnitude of that. I could have said "car" and "driving" instead and it would have been far more likely.