yeah, i can’t imagine raising my kid in an environment where they could actually die from a gunshot. i don’t understand how this is so normalised in a first world country

Is there some place where it is not possible to be shot? Even space is not safe, Russia brought guns with them.

This could be one of the most difficult part to appropriately convey with words.

There are guns everywhere, in every country. In the most peaceful places there will be some portion of cops allowed to wear guns, there will be hunters with permits etc. There will always be a non-zero chance to be shot.

But whether that non-zero chance is 0.00001% or 1% makes a world of difference and will have deep impacts on how we live our life, talk to people, deal with confrontations.

A low enough probability brings radical changes.

Funnily enough, this was at Toronto Metropolitan University. We have a safe injection site on campus because it's downtown.