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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    3 months ago

    I am not sure at all. I might have been thinking of mass shootings instead :D

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      3 months 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.