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Re:H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home by brianwawok on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @02:50PM (#32569439)
> I have to disagree with both. Guns are a constant threat, even in the bluest of cities since there are Red States just a few hours of drive away (if you're not already a Blue City in a Red State which is extremely common). The threat of school shooting is very real. Kids have to go through bs "active shooter drills"... this is not the sign of a healthy society.

Sorry you are buying far too much into the news. I suspect more people are burned alive in housefires from shoddy construction in India, than die in the US to guns.

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Re:H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home by pm90 on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @02:56PM (#32569539)
If you’re gonna wildly speculate then by all means go ahead and make up the most wildest shit imaginable.
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Re:H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home by ivalm on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:18PM (#32572341)
It’s actually surprisingly close in absolute numbers. About 20k not-self inflicted gun deaths in the us, and 17k deaths by fire in India. Ofc per capita gun deaths>>fires.
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Re:H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home by bombcar on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @06:35PM (#32572490)
The non-self inflicted is huge though, most gun deaths are suicides.
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Re:H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home by geebee on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @09:08PM (#32573814)
Correct - though the US doesn’t have a dramatically higher suicide rate compared to countries with vastly lower gun related homicide rates. So excluding non self inflicted rates may provide the more relevant metric for this analysis.
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Re:H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home by geebee on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @04:19PM (#32585222)
Too late to edit - I meant to write "excluding self inflicted rates", not "excluding non self inflicted rates", though I don't get the impression there was any misunderstanding.
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Re:H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home by bombcar on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @07:40AM (#32578010)
Yep - many people see the "gun deaths" number and assume all of those are crimes (well, technically suicide is a crime where the victim and the perpetrator are the same).
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Re:H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home by brianwawok on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @09:54AM (#32579487)
In addition, a hunge chunk of the actual gun deaths are related to drug and drug trafficing.

If you don't deal/buy drugs, and you don't drive through the inner city projects where turf wars are a thing, you can cross that off your list.

I feel very safe from gun violence in the US.

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Re:H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home by bombcar on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:31AM (#32579945)
Once you factor those out, I think you are MUCH more likely to be killed by a vehicle than anything else.

And even if you don't, it's about even.

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Re:H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home by la64710 on Tuesday August 23, 2022 @11:32PM (#32574685)
Indias population is X (maybe 7) times more than USA
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Re:H1B rejected – builds unicorn back home by nixass on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @06:46AM (#32577574)
> I suspect more people are burned alive in housefires from shoddy construction in India, than die in the US to guns

ChEcKmAtE!

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