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In 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/sea
by boplicity 5y ago
In 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-...