Reply to "Dayton, Ohio, shooting leaves 9 dead, 26 injured; suspect shot to death by cops, police say"

StankyPost Master

Naio posted:
Stanky posted:
I saw where Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson dared to put things into perspective and got blasted for his trouble: https://twitter.com/neiltyson
In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings.
On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose…
500 to Medical errors
300 to the Flu
250 to Suicide
200 to Car Accidents
40 to Homicide via Handgun
Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.
I suspect that there will be a whole host of people on this site to flame Dr. Tyson as well.
Where are they? What do you gather from his statement?

I think Dr.Tyson believes that one should worry first about the more likely ways to die. After the arson attack on a studio in Japan with a can of gasoline that killed 33 people, one might as well demand the confiscation of gasoline by the goobermint.

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