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I didn't check your pedestrian deaths during the daytime statistics, but ~4 per day would be ~1400 a year. I did check the number of mass shooting victims, and
by karaterobot 4y ago
I didn't check your pedestrian deaths during the daytime statistics, but ~4 per day would be ~1400 a year. I did check the number of mass shooting victims, and in 2019 (the most recent year for which data is really meaningful) the total was 180 (~.5 a day), of which 71 were deaths (~.2 a day)[1], or about 20x less likely than getting killed by a car during the daytime.
That's pedantic, but I just wanted to clarify because mass shootings are also in the news.
[1]https://www.statista.com/statistics/811504/mass-shooting-victims-in-the-united-states-by-fatalities-and-injuries/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/811504/mass-shooting-vic...
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y agoThere's different measures for mass shootings. By some measures (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2022 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_th...) - this year there are ~1.8 per day. So you're about twice as likely to be killed by a car in daylight as a pedestrian as you are to be killed in a mass shooting. Your point stands. I overestimated.