ll74
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The "point" is a fallacy. It doesn't take into account the causes or circumstances. Especially if you try to compare it to actual murders committed with the use of a gun.Your distaste for guns is not worth disarming and preventing hundreds of thousands to millions of self defense cases a year, never mind all the other uses and benefits of guns.
And note, that 45k figure for deaths by use of guns is mostly suicides (and suicide is a mental health problem, not a methodology problem).
Only about 1% of that amount is actually mass shootings events.
Saint_Ann's point stands. If a million cases for half the population of the United States qualifies as 'rare', than 450 cases for the entire population of the United States would certainly qualify as 'almost non existent'.
The majority of late term abortions occur because of medical necessity. Most occur within the first trimester.
Without a gun, the majority of intended murders and suicides would be reduced to a mostly non existent number in the US.
I don't need false equivalency to obfuscate the facts.
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