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by jdkoeck 3 hours ago
That kind of thinking kills more people each year in Europe than guns do in the USA. Let that sink in.
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It's not an apples to apples comparison. 80%+ of deaths because of heat in Europe are 65+ years old.

When you start handling that range you've to take into account that these people are going to die because of something, save a guy from heat here and that's an extra death because of cancer 4 years later.

Now I'm not saying it's a thing to be ignored, but be wary of playing quick and dirty with statistics.

So the stats say we need to encourage more guns and shooting deaths in the US...

Maybe Europe should sell guns to the states - ideally sold in €