• redtea
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    1 year ago

    Unfortunately for these and future victims, the US needs this kind of nonchalant disregard for life to be normalised so that it’s ordinary people don’t blush at the idea of doing the same thing to other countries through warfare.

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      1 year ago

      The vast majority of these gun deaths are suicides or crime related since mass shootings just need more then one victim at once regardless of motivation. Gun deaths are something usually far outside the purview of the standard American. It just doesn’t come up in daily life for most people.

      In the minds of most Americans, you are just as likely to be killed by lightning strike then mass shooting in the US, so people just don’t care.

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        You are more likely to be killed by lightning strike then mass shooting in the US

        That’s not true. For example, 11 people died from lightning stike in 2021, but 706 people died in mass shooting in that year (not including the shooters), meaning you are 64 times as likely to die in mass shooting than from lightning strike.

        Note: 2021 was below average for lightning deaths and above average for mass shooting, but i think it would still be around 30 times more considering last few years averages.

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          My mistake, I completely failed to open my point correctly there and that changed it’s whole meaning. I meant to say “In the minds of regular Americans, you’re just as likely to die by lightning strike then mass shooting”.

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            Yeah, especially that they seem to think that both are just natural events happening for no reason other than god’s will or something.