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sc94597 on 22 June 2016
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CosmicSex said:
sc94597 said:

The chances of you dieing in a mass-shooting is smaller than winning the lottery. It just shows how influetial  the media is and how easy it is to fear-monger when people are afraid to go to movie theaters.

Here you go, 

 

Thats not perspective... Perspective is this

350 million Americans.  Mortality rate is 100%

.6% of 350 million = 2.1 million American alive today will be murdered (actually not okay)

Of the 2.1 million Americans murdered .2% will die in mass shootings or 4200 people (also actually not okay)

And of course it doesn't reveal to us how many of the total 2.1 million will be murdered with a gun, but its safe to assume that it will be the vast majority.

Yes, gun are a huge problem in a country where everyone is on the damn edge and has a preocupation with killing each other.

So, we do need to find a way to bring gun violence down.  And we need to figure out why we are so damn violent to begin with... and no its not video games lol.

Your math is actually wrong for two reasons:

1. Population size changes over time

2. Death rates (and homicide rates change over time.)

Why does it matter if somebody is murdered by a gun or some other means? The important argument is whether or not total homicides will decrease at a faster rate if guns were restricted. Comparing absolute numbers or just gun homicide numbers is deceptive and silly.

Plus the poster I quoted was specifically talking about mass shootings. How do you suppose we make the mass shooting rate zero in a country of over 320 million with over 300 million guns?