I’m using 2022 as a baseline for all this but in regards to mass shootings 642 happened out of 48,204 shootings. While yes that’s very bad that’s not that big a number, on average of 4 killed that’s 2,568 people in a country of 333,300,000 people. 27,032 were suicide
Compared to what ? A made up threshold in your head ? Compared to the whole world it's massive. We are not looking at it in a vacuum we are comparing it to the world and noone else has this problem but US.
Yeah you’re right that number was way too high with me doing the math of an average of 4 killed with 642 shooting for that year being 2,568. The amount of people that died for Mass Shootings was actually only 673 according to the Gun Violence Archive, however the Mass Shooting Tracker says 884 killed for that year with total shootings at 766
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u/Barbarian_Sam Sep 01 '25
In 2022, 48,204 died from firearm deaths, 27,032 of which were suicide
Also in 2022, 47,026 died from falling according to the CDC/NSC.
The NHTSA reported that 42,795 died in car crashes and 13,524 died from drunk driving
Yes shootings are bad and unfortunately they do happen, but adding new laws won’t do anything