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the many cultural and political forces pushing us to behave like a nation of hysterics.
As a nation, we will collectively shit our pants at the drop of hat. Often, for no real reason. Kinda like how we collectively lose our shit whenever a pretty white girl is abducted.
Related: Never tell me the odds:
Each year in the United States, there are 26-30,000 deaths by firearm. As of 2006, Roughly 55% of them are suicides (the number varies greatly year to year, between 40% and 60%).
Of the remaining 10,000 to 18,000, somewhere between 60% and 80% (depending on the year) are one felon killing another (according to the FBI).
The number of non-felons killed (other than suicides) using a gun in the US is anywhere from 2,000 to 7,000 a year (again, highly variable year to year). About 20% of those are accidents, and 80% are murders. Of those murders approximately 80% were committed by people with felony records.
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