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The "Gun Assault" category needs more breaking down. How many of those were innocent people -- i.e. store clerks shot by robbers, spouses shot for infidelity,
by csense 6y ago
The "Gun Assault" category needs more breaking down. How many of those were innocent people -- i.e. store clerks shot by robbers, spouses shot for infidelity, victims of serial killers, murdered victims of child predators, and so on -- and how many were "asking for it" -- i.e. they were a criminal whose victim shot them in self-defense, it was gang-vs-gang violence, they got shot in a drug deal gone bad, they were shot by police or armed guards (presumably while resisting arrest or threatening a victim with imminent harm), they were soldiers who were killed in battle, and so on.
Likewise with the "Opioiod overdose" situation. How many of those were medical mistakes, like the doctor wrote X milligrams and the nurse accidentally put X grams in the IV instead, or a patient forgot whether they'd taken today's pills, accidentally took an extra dose and died from it, or unknowingly got prescribed multiple drugs that all contained opioids, or happened to have an allergy to opioids and died of anaphylactic shock? How many were "asking for it" -- deliberately swallowing too many pills in a suicide attempt, or taking illegal street pills / injections created by unknown persons, containing unknown substances at unknown potency?