• KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    28 days ago

    i guess my point that you aren’t picking up on here is that this is quite literally an irrational fear. You should be more worried about being hit by a car, or punched in the face. Or falling down a set of stairs or something.

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      28 days ago

      I’ve been punched before, complete blind violence. The difference is that being punched didn’t kill me. The fear of getting shot in America is not irrational. Again refer to the page full of statistics in my previous comment.

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        26 days ago

        being shot doesn’t have to kill you either. A lot of people survive being shot, lots of people also die from getting punched.

        What if they had a knife? Those aren’t exactly hard to get, knives arguably cause more violent injuries than guns do. Unless you’re shooting someone point blank with a 45 or something.