Comment by throwaway98342
9 months ago
This page seems to me to have more than 0 deaths from guns: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_...
> A total of 711 people have been killed and 2,375 people have been wounded in 586 shootings
Not sure how to explain this and I don't want to imply anything about US culture cause I don't know it but it is so unimaginable to me that there were 500 shootings in one year.
Were I live we had none (zero) in the last 10 years or even more. Of course a smaller country so probably not comparable.
I'm not sure how to account for / compete with folks measuring risks via say news outlets or even wikipeida pages. The fact that there are that many shootings is terrible.
That "terribleness" doesn't mean you're at a risk that is worth worrying about, or worse, worrying about that and not something that might be far more of a risk.
But nobody can compete with purely an emotional response to bad things.