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> I live in the US without the fear of death in a mass shooting because I understand statistics. Obviously you are making the assumption I do not understand st
by aplummer 5y ago
> I live in the US without the fear of death in a mass shooting because I understand statistics.
Obviously you are making the assumption I do not understand statistics, which I do. There are multiple preventable causes of death that can simultaneously be tragedies, and whataboutism does not negate from the extremely high death toll and comparative probability from gun violence in the United States.
The comparison to cars is facetious because cars have the necessary utility of moving people about around the world and are highly regulated, whereas assault rifles have by comparison miniscule utility and regulation.
- WalterBright 5y agoI fear the sweeping new police and surveillance powers handed to the government to protect us from a statistically nonexistent threat.
- aplummer 5y agoThe nearly 40 thousand victims (4 per 100k) of gun violence and suicide-by-firearm each year in the USA may be meaningless to you, but they are not statistically non-existent any more than their lives were statistically non-existent.
- WalterBright 5y ago1. these are not mass shootings. You've shifted your stance from mass shootings to all gun deaths. 2. half are suicides by gun. You do not need to fear them. 3. most of the rest are concentrated in a handful of areas, like some neighborhoods in Chicago. It is indeed prudent to avoid them 4. again, you started out talking about fear of mass shootings. This is what I was addressing. Nowhere have I claimed that gun deaths are not tragedies.