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(100,043 posts)f_townsend
(260 posts)that the odds of getting shot are "vanishingly small".
No, I didn't make that up.
VMA131Marine
(4,136 posts)O.012% in any given year. That includes homicides and suicides.
Your chances of being injured by a gun on any given day are about 1-in-a-million. However, these are averages. If you own a gun, your chances of being killed or injured by one are much higher. If you live in a red state, your chances are higher, and so on.
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(21,104 posts)Kaleva
(36,259 posts)The fact that the great majority of us will not be killed on the streets or highways is meaningless as fuck for those who are .
And yet, almost all of us drive or ride in a vehicle almost daily without any fear or worry
f_townsend
(260 posts)Kaleva
(36,259 posts)despite the chances of being killed or seriously injured in a car accident. And yet people express fear of being a victim of being shot which is far less likely to happen .
f_townsend
(260 posts)Yes, the old canard that "more people die in car accidents" is ancient history, not like it's a race to see which one is worse. Gun deaths are increasing every single year, as is violent crime driven by guns.
"people express fear of being a victim of being shot"
People legitimately fear of being a gunshot victim, is what you should be saying. Security at entire school systems in the gun nut states are being completely overhauled because of the real threat of gun massacres. There are entire US cities which have become almost uninhabitable because of gun violence. What you're really "just saying" is simply diversionary bullshit.
raccoon
(31,105 posts)VMA131Marine
(4,136 posts)Statistics are obviously of no comfort if you happen to be the one-in-a-million.
lostnfound
(16,162 posts)Then every year the chances of you or one of your loved ones OR one of THEIR loved ones GETTING SHOT is 1 in 25.
1,000,000/111 * 365 = 25.
Its truly not all about any ONE of us. Its about accepting that all of these lives matter, and that Americans shouldnt have to get shot more frequently than people in other, KINDER countries.