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You Will Not Die in a Mass Shooting

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Pro-2nd amendment advocates are the ones considered paranoid while anti-2nd amendment trash push for a ban on this and a ban on that and more restrictions.I am sure anti-2nd amendment trash will ignore this story.


You Will Not Die in a Mass Shooting

Some very visible bad things have happened. Dozens of people have been shot. Some people are very afraid. They don’t need to be.
Let us note up front that there are two competing dynamics here: first, the widespread idea in the public imagination that something very unlikely could happen; and second, the media’s exaggeration of this dynamic for the purpose of producing trend stories.


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It is true that guns kill tens of thousands of Americans every year—the majority of them from suicide. Of the fraction that are homicides, only a vanishingly small fraction of those are high profile mass shootings of the type that make people fear to go to office parties, or to movie theaters. If gun violence itself is what you fear, the most prudent action you can take is to not have a gun in your home.
Here are the leading causes of death in America, with annual fatalities per the CDC:

  • Heart disease: 611,105
  • Cancer: 584,881
  • Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 149,205
  • Accidents (unintentional injuries): 130,557
  • Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,978
They are followed by Alzheimer’s, diabetes, pneumonia and flu, and kidney disease. Next is suicide, the only leading cause of death that might be considered violent.
In 2013, auto accidents killed almost 33,000 Americans—about the same number of people killed in all gun deaths, and many more people than died by homicide.
You are far more likely to die driving to the movie theater than you are to die by being killed by a mass shooter at the movie theater.
Life, in truth, is mundane. Things become big news stories because they are extraordinary. It is a mistake to imagine that your death will make national news. It probably will not. If you fear guns, don’t kill yourself. If you fear dying, eat healthier and exercise and don’t smoke.
You will not die in a tragic mass shooting. You will die of heart disease in your late 70s. Unless you keep worrying about being murdered all the time. Stress is a killer.
 
Pro-2nd amendment advocates are the ones considered paranoid while anti-2nd amendment trash push for a ban on this and a ban on that and more restrictions.I am sure anti-2nd amendment trash will ignore this story.


You Will Not Die in a Mass Shooting

Some very visible bad things have happened. Dozens of people have been shot. Some people are very afraid. They don’t need to be.
Let us note up front that there are two competing dynamics here: first, the widespread idea in the public imagination that something very unlikely could happen; and second, the media’s exaggeration of this dynamic for the purpose of producing trend stories.


snip...



It is true that guns kill tens of thousands of Americans every year—the majority of them from suicide. Of the fraction that are homicides, only a vanishingly small fraction of those are high profile mass shootings of the type that make people fear to go to office parties, or to movie theaters. If gun violence itself is what you fear, the most prudent action you can take is to not have a gun in your home.
Here are the leading causes of death in America, with annual fatalities per the CDC:

  • Heart disease: 611,105
  • Cancer: 584,881
  • Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 149,205
  • Accidents (unintentional injuries): 130,557
  • Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 128,978
They are followed by Alzheimer’s, diabetes, pneumonia and flu, and kidney disease. Next is suicide, the only leading cause of death that might be considered violent.
In 2013, auto accidents killed almost 33,000 Americans—about the same number of people killed in all gun deaths, and many more people than died by homicide.
You are far more likely to die driving to the movie theater than you are to die by being killed by a mass shooter at the movie theater.
Life, in truth, is mundane. Things become big news stories because they are extraordinary. It is a mistake to imagine that your death will make national news. It probably will not. If you fear guns, don’t kill yourself. If you fear dying, eat healthier and exercise and don’t smoke.
You will not die in a tragic mass shooting. You will die of heart disease in your late 70s. Unless you keep worrying about being murdered all the time. Stress is a killer.

You won't die by a lightening strike either, until you do.

The country's changin dude. The gun pundits are out. Common sense is -in.
 
Nor will you die by Muslim terrorist.
 
You won't die by a lightening strike either, until you do.

The country's changin dude. The gun pundits are out. Common sense is -in.
Its amazing how anti-2nd amendment trash have bastardize the phrase "common sense".
 
Nor will you die by Muslim terrorist.

Yes both sides act irrationally over things that statistically won't happen to them or anyone they know.
 
You won't die by a lightening strike either, until you do.

The country's changin dude. The gun pundits are out. Common sense is -in.

the banoid movement is devoid of common sense

the banoids tell us we are paranoid to want guns for self defense but they say violent crime is so bad that millions of honest people have to be persecuted to stop violent criminals
 
Its amazing how anti-2nd amendment trash have bastardize the phrase "common sense".

well to them the laws they want are common sense once you understand what the banoid movement really wants

if its public safety-their stupid proposed laws are ANTI sensible

but if your goal is to harass honest gun owners and try to make gun ownership more costly or ban it altogether-then the crap the banoid movement tries to impose makes lots of sense.
 
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