And who has to know what they're doing to kill even more with a gun? No one past simply knowing how to reload and pull the trigger and point it at someone. The skill required to even do 1/10 of the damage a firearm would do with very little skill would narrow the list of people who would be considered a serious threat with a bow and arrow to a relatively few people in the entire world.You don’t need to shoot 3 arrows per second. One or two people who know what their doing could easily kill a handful with them.
And now you're just talking out of your backside.Why do you care, you’re just anti-gun.
I love you, brother, but the difference is the randomness of being in a movie theater or wally world or in the street or school or wherever and someone just begins shooting. I can choose to drive carefully or not use drugs. No, I can't account for all variables or other people. I can't stop someone with a personal grudge from deciding to act.What drives me crazy is how the narrative is spun that there is this huge threat from mass shootings when they account for less than 0.5% of the victims that are killed annually by guns.
You are more than 100 times more likely to be killed by a handgun in an isolated incident.
You are more than 1000 times more likely to be killed in a traffic accident.
Overdoses account for more than 4 times the people killed per year than all the homicides of any type combined.
Over 50 million students enrolled k-12 per year in the US. If we count all the kids/teachers impacted by a mass shooting event @ + 1000 (even though less than 1% of those would be injured directly), then we get 0.00002% of kids will be impacted.
If you actually want to save lives, fix the horses first and then worry about the zebra.
But someone just walks in a random area and starts shooting? If I'm in the wrong place I'm gone. Statistically, the fear is not 100% rational compared to the chances of it happening, but we are not statistics - we are humans. And all it takes to be dead is to be that person in the wrong place when someone gets a wild hair to begin shooting.
I'm reminded of the statisticians who went hunting: one shot to the right of the deer, the next to the left, the third exclaims "On average we got it!". Except this time it's "on average we aren't in danger!" Doesn't matter if you're the unlucky dead kid at school or mother and father at walmart who likely never thought that would be your last day on Earth.
This is a problem which should no longer be ignored. How we deal with it is a good question. I do think it's time for serious discussions that aren't simply "take the guns" or "from my cold dead hand". Can't we, as rational human beings, move beyond those polar extremes to find some things that will help?