There are two things you can count on to happen every single day in 2025.

[paleotn]

17. Please see statistics, probabilities, etc. They're your friend.

They cut through the anecdotal biases and a host of fallacies. Here's one for you...it seems the more people you have in one area, the more gun deaths. How'd that happen? But if I normalize the data so it's actually comparable, gee! I'm safer in downtown Manhattan than BF Egypt Alabama. Really, it's a very complex issue you're oversimplifying with your "neighbors with gun safes choke full of gunzzzz!"

An interesting article that might shed some light. Death rates per 100K. Probabilities of being killed by firearms. The impact of cultural differences. Socio-economics. Interesting stuff.

https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/23/surprising-geography-of-gun-violence-00092413

And this. I wonder what's wrong in Mississippi. Not a hot bed of high density metro areas. Yet.....

https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2025/03/05/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-us/sr_25-03-05_gun-deaths_4/