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Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by dsizzle on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:34PM (#31514157)
To the extent that school shooting are, statistically, a "tail" event, you would expect that to change more sensitively than the "average" (guns per capita). So a tripling of the average gun measure (going from Serbia to US), might correspond to a much larger change in these extreme events. I doubt it's a simple statistical consequence, but it also doesn't follow that amount of guns would be (linearly) proportional to extreme events.
Re:Mental illness, mass shootings, and the politics of Ameri... by BobbyJo on Wednesday May 25, 2022 @11:40PM (#31514198)
Sweet baby Jesus thank you. I've been waiting years for someone to make a reasonable argument to me on why stricter guns laws are a good idea.

Every other argument I've seen has been appeals to emotion without actually framing the cost/benefit relationship in any useful way.