[bigDinosaur]

Mass shootings are more traumatic though as they're extremely brutal, graphic, and sudden. I'd weight the actual impact of someone I know being shot in a mass shooting far worse than someone I know dying of breast cancer. The latter won't have them leave in the morning and not come back at 5pm randomly. It also won't create a general climate of fear, distrust between people, and terrible politics. Both are tragic, but tragedies of different kind, which is why direct comparisons always seem technically correct but missing so badly the way people actually think about and experience tragedy.

[BrianOnHN]

> also won't create a general climate of fear, distrust between people, and terrible politics

Also why they're allowed to continue. "It's good for business."

[pyuser583]

I personally know people who were injured in a mass shooting. It sends shockwaves throughout the surrounding community in a way many crimes do not.

[eddyschai]

Not debating any of that; originally thought the comment above mine was wrong, looked at the stats, and found they were far closer than I assumed.