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> if you can make a unabomber type of device you can construct a weaponized quadrocopter It’s trivial, cheap, and simple to do massive harm to massive numbers
by lurquer 5y ago
> if you can make a unabomber type of device you can construct a weaponized quadrocopter
It’s trivial, cheap, and simple to do massive harm to massive numbers of people.
Fortunately, humans don’t usually do this unless part of the government/military.
In a country of 300 million, the only non-state mass death events are a handful of terrorist attacks and deranged teenagers determined to shoot up their schools. The annual deaths caused by these non-state actors is, on average, less than the annual fatalities on a given stretch of a run-of-the-mill interstate.
- boplicity 5y agoIn 2020, 24 people died in car crashes in all of Seattle. [1] In 2020, 446 people died in mass shootings in the US. [2] 1. https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-traffic-deaths-remain-high-but-total-crashes-down-sharply-report-finds https://komonews.com/news/local/seattle-traffic-deaths-remai... 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2020 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...
- benchaney 5y agoWhy are you comparing traffic fatalities in Seattle to mass shooting fatalities in the entire country? That makes no sense. In any event >40k people died from traffic fatalities in the United States in 2020[0], so a few orders of magnitude larger than mass shooting deaths, [0] https://www.npr.org/2021/03/05/974006735/tragic-driving-was-down-in-2020-but-traffic-fatality-rates-surged https://www.npr.org/2021/03/05/974006735/tragic-driving-was-...