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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago

Lewiston shooting suspect found dead, law enforcement officials say

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jeffw@lemmy.worldM to News@lemmy.world · 2 years ago
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Lewiston shooting suspect found dead, law enforcement officials say: Live updates
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Follow NBC News' coverage for live updates and developments about the shootings in Lewiston, Maine, that killed at least 18 people.
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    The definition of mass shooting shouldn’t detract from the fact that 500+ shootings 4+ injured is too many

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      500+ shootings in a country with 330 million people and 400 million guns is a rounding error.

      Last year there were 42,795 fatal car accidents, we have 233 million licensed drivers. 85 times more than shootings with 4 or more injured.

      https://www.usatoday.com/money/blueprint/auto-insurance/fatal-car-crash-statistics/

      https://www.statista.com/statistics/191653/number-of-licensed-drivers-in-the-us-since-1988/

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        What’s the number one cause of death for children in America? Is that a rounding error?

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          “In 2021, there were 2,571 child deaths due to firearms”

          https://www.kff.org/mental-health/issue-brief/child-and-teen-firearm-mortality-in-the-u-s-and-peer-countries/

          2,571 / 330,000,000 = 0.0000077909

          Yeah, pretty much.

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            Jesus, at least you’re open with your psychopathy.

            3k dead kids in a “first world” country, to something so easily avoided, is monstrous.

            Happy to see you say it loud and proud, fuck those dead kids. Makes it easier to identify y’all.

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              Each death, individually, is a tragedy. Collectively? On a population of 330 MILLION? It’s literally NOTHING. That’s how statistics work.

              In the big list of the top 59 ways Americans die, accidental gunshot is #59, fewer than those killed by cops, btw, which is #58, homicidal gunshot is #31 and suicidal gunshot is #21.

              https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/death-index-top-50-ways-americans-die/

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                Crazy, compare that to every other developed nation.

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                  Well, we already know we aren’t every other developed nation, that’s why we don’t have universal health care either. Or guaranteed vacation time, or paid parental leave, or dozens of other things that just might, you know, make people not want to shoot each other. :)

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                    Whole country sound like a rounding error lmao

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