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That’s a specious argument. I can easily mitigate my own personal risk of getting struck by lightning. I have a weather forecast which gives me hours warning of
by ipython 7y ago
That’s a specious argument. I can easily mitigate my own personal risk of getting struck by lightning. I have a weather forecast which gives me hours warning of unsafe conditions, and there are usually covered structures around to protect you from that risk. It’s not like the lightning follows you around to kill you.
- jMyles 7y ago...and yet, lightning still kills more people than mass shootings inside schools. Doesn't that tell you something? These events are exceedingly rare and not worth the amount of political capital spent on them. Automobile deaths? Opioid overdoses? Those are worth it.
- ipython 7y agoBut why do you care about opioid overdoses? Is it just the volume of dead? What about the relation between the aggressor and the victim? One could argue that there is no need to spend political capital on opioid abusers, after all, they are just by and large harming themselves and not innocent bystanders.