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Where do you get your numbers?
CDC states about 28 deaths per year by lightning strike. https://www.cdc.gov/disasters/lightning/victimdata/infographic.html
22 deaths can be attributed to the shooting in Uvalde alone. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States_in_2022
"There’s been an on-campus shooting ‘pretty much every single school day’ this fall, the founder of the K-12 School Shooting Database said." https://www.k12dive.com/news/2022-worst-year-for-school-shootings/639313/
Probably the numbers are right from the NRA? /s
You don't need to use /s here
“You’re more likely to be killed by a hippo in Africa than you are by a school shooting in the US”.
The comparison is made up because it’s convenient. They might as well have compared school shootings to worldwide hippopotamus attacks (~500 year), it’s every bit as pointless.
Yeah yeah yeah, I get it. You’re fine with the death and suffering so you can enjoy your guns. You don’t want to hear about those people being killed either. You want to be sheltered from the consequences of your hobby.
Uhm, gangs killing people is certainly already very much illegal?..how do you plan to dissolve the problem at its root by legislation, exactly?
And how many lives are saved by guns vs taken away by said guns? There's a reason almost every single country on planet Earth has decided to outlaw firearms for self-defence.
If we want to reduce violence and save lives, we not only need to work with the problem at its core - it's essential, but not enough and doesn't deliver the results you dream of - we should also remove the means by which said violence is executed as much as possible to curb violence now.
Your "right to self-defense" is paid by lives of people who were shot with legally purchased guns in a criminal attack. Everyone carrying guns, overall, does not make country safer, which is a thing just about everyone realized like almost a century ago.