03-20-2018, 11:30 AM
I'll explain the point in a bit more detail. Murders aren't good, regardless what is used to enact said murder or who is the victim. When we are talking about homicide rates your average citizen is obviously concerned about being the victim, or that a loved one or acquaintance will be a victim. When I point out that of the ~12k killed a year a very large percentage of those killed are criminals killed by other criminals and that ~1.5k are criminals killed by police I am showing how these fears are even more unfounded then it would otherwise appear. Let's be generous and say that the two categories above account for half of the 12k (and I believe that is being very generous). This leaves 6,000 murder victims via gunfire per year in a nation of 330,000,000.
In other words, 0.0018 of the population not involved in serious criminal activity will be murdered with a firearm every year. Yet this dominates our news cycle. I wonder why?
In other words, 0.0018 of the population not involved in serious criminal activity will be murdered with a firearm every year. Yet this dominates our news cycle. I wonder why?
