• corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    5 months ago

    The data shows that a vigilante will be a hero only in one of 7,000 cases of gun violence. I don’t see data showing how often the instigator of gun violence has a carry permit.

    But this tells us two things:

    • the rate of Good Guy Gun bros is super small

    • there are so many cases of mass shootings in America that 1:7000 can be calculated

    Is America holding back on accessible healthcare because it would then need to address the prevalence of guns in America, or have they heard of mandatory multi-million-dollar 3rd party life insurance for gun owners? There’s even a company named liberty that may insure them.

    • Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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      5 months ago

      Also missing from those stats are the stats on how often someone tries to be a hero and either makes a dangerous situation worse or misreads the situation entirely and makes a peaceful situation violent.

      The well regulated militia part was pretty important and the judge(s) that ruled it wasn’t should have been impeached for overextending his power.