Wait. you guys only lost 200 people in mass shootings? There’s four hundred million of you. no wonder no one cares. News makes it sound like you lose 50,000 that way.
Total homicides usually clocks in around 26k or so. About half with firearms. About 10% with specifically rifles.
Of that ~26k, about 200 this year have been from shootings in which more than 3 people were killed. To get the number that high you aren’t just counting “nutter with a manifesto shoots up a public place”-style shootings (there were 1400 or so total killed in those between the mid 60s and 2021, according to WaPo - they stopped that count at the point and since started a new project with a more broad measure of what counts), you’re mostly counting gang violence and family annihilators (think person kills own spouse and kids, then themself).
We focus on nutters shooting up public places and want to primarily ban rifles, because the people calling for it pay attention to a few incidents that get lots of media attention and then see statistics measuring something different and connect the two as is intended.
Wait. you guys only lost 200 people in mass shootings? There’s four hundred million of you. no wonder no one cares. News makes it sound like you lose 50,000 that way.
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Yeah, they are. Turn off the news and go for a walk.
No, we lose 50,000 people per year in normal shootings. Quite a few of those are suicides though, so no one cares.
We very much should
Total homicides usually clocks in around 26k or so. About half with firearms. About 10% with specifically rifles.
Of that ~26k, about 200 this year have been from shootings in which more than 3 people were killed. To get the number that high you aren’t just counting “nutter with a manifesto shoots up a public place”-style shootings (there were 1400 or so total killed in those between the mid 60s and 2021, according to WaPo - they stopped that count at the point and since started a new project with a more broad measure of what counts), you’re mostly counting gang violence and family annihilators (think person kills own spouse and kids, then themself).
We focus on nutters shooting up public places and want to primarily ban rifles, because the people calling for it pay attention to a few incidents that get lots of media attention and then see statistics measuring something different and connect the two as is intended.
You’re not disingenuous. That’s rare.
Yeah if you want to see that in lemmy check out this dude
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