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The 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 statisticall
by aplummer 5y ago
The 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.