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Re:What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture by yongjik on Wednesday February 28, 2018 @12:44AM (#16480955)
> The number of mass murders (not all of which use AR-15s, by any means) committed at schools averages about one per year.

Only in America you will find someone saying, with a straight face, that one mass murder at school per year does not constitute social crisis...

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Re:What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture by Turing_Machine on Thursday March 01, 2018 @10:48PM (#16498837)
Way more children drown in swimming pools.

Something like 15 teenagers (comparable to the number killed in Florida) die every day from texting and driving.

Why aren't those things "social crises"?

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Re:What Critics Don't Understand About Gun Culture by IntronExon on Thursday March 01, 2018 @11:03PM (#16498898)
More people died from the Spanish Flu epidemic than all of WWI. Was WWI not a crisis? Half of all people who have ever lived, died as a result of mosquito-borne illnesses, do all other causes of death not matter? Shall we stop bothering to develop autonomous vehicles because deaths from automotive accidents pale next to that?

Note that I’m not even attacking your premise that accidental deaths during an activity voluntarily engaged, in some way relates to mass murder.

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