• Death_Equity@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    The point is to lump school shootings and terrorist shootings in with random personal dispute shootings and gang violence shootings.

    That way you hear about all these mass shootings and think that ~30,000 firearms deaths per year are mass shootings instead of ~2/3 suicides, ~500 “accidental”, ~1,500 police, and up to 80% of the remainder being hood business. Actual mass shootings are a tiny number of firearms deaths and they are the poster child for the problem.

    The majority of firearms deaths can be solved with healthcare reform, economic reform, and rebuilding the American community.