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by brudgers
4928 days ago
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Mass shootings are a strawman which allows convenient comparison to lightning strikes. The correct meaningful numbers in establishing public policy regarding firearms are approximately 19,000 suicides by fire arm per year, and 11,000 homicides by firearm per year. If we look at those numbers, the deaths in the recent school shooting are quite ordinary. The homicides are equivalent to the extra day in a leap year, and the suicide of the gunman was statistically background noise. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr61/nvsr61_06.pdf |
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