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In reply to the discussion: Another day in America where we need nothing short of repealing the 2A and confiscating all guns. [View all]EX500rider
(10,835 posts)The worse recent mass killing by a individual was not done with firearms but with a truck.
On the evening of 14 July 2016, a 19-tonne cargo truck was deliberately driven into crowds of people celebrating Bastille Day on the Promenade des Anglais in Nice, France, resulting in the deaths of 86 people[2] and the injury of 458 others.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2016_Nice_truck_attack
If our wakos switch to that instead of firearms it will not be a improvement...or to IED's, poison, arson, etc.
It is a software problem, not a hardware problem....somebody wants kill a bunch of people they will get it done.
Other things that are more dangerous in our daily lives, ladders and stairs, cars, what ever is under your sink and in your medicine cabinet:
Unintentional fall deaths (per yr)
Number of deaths: 36,338
Deaths per 100,000 population: 11.2
Motor vehicle traffic deaths
Number of deaths: 40,231
Deaths per 100,000 population: 12.4
Unintentional poisoning deaths
Number of deaths: 64,795
Deaths per 100,000 population: 19.9
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/accidental-injury.htm
And yet nobody seems to give a crap about what could be done to save those 140,000+ dead people a year, which makes the 14,000+- dead by homicide look like a smaller problem to me.