Also remember, things are newsworthy because they’re novel. US sees like 2 gun deaths per day and thousands due to insurance company malpractice, but this one death dominates newscycles.

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    7 days ago

    US sees like 2 gun deaths per day

    Are you sure about that? NYC alone has around 1 murder per day, and I’d assume that most are gun related.

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        7 days ago

        Depends on what you call a mass shooting. When we think “mass shooting”, we’re thinking of the Mother Jones sort in this pic.

        https://imgur.com/2prD6rU

        There are about 50,000 gun deaths in the US every year, same as vehicular deaths. About half the gun deaths are suicides. About none of the vehicle deaths are.

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      2 per day? Crazy…

      In 2023, the average number of people who died from gun violence in the United States each day was 118. This is based on the 43,163 people who died from gun-related injuries in 2023.

      2 per day, what are they smoking.