@marine77 the conversation has mysteriously teleported from one thread to another
Injuries and Deaths Due to Firearms in the Home : Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery
This doesn’t pertain to public shootings, but at the very least this theory has been shown to be potentially false when looking at in home shootings.
“For every time a gun in the home was used in a self-defense or legally justifiable shooting, there were four unintentional shootings, seven criminal assaults or homicides, and 11 attempted or completed suicides.”
It should be noted even though rates of gun violence are high in the US… Rates of death pale in comparison to alcohol/tobacco use (alcohol attributing to 88,000 deaths/year tobacco attributing to 480,000). This doesn’t mean it’s okay, yet in the grand scheme… Guns are considerably less deadly
In 2017 you had 39261 (counting suicides) gun deaths. Roughly 47000 opiate overdoses in 2018… The differences are… Opiates ravage communities, acutely, guns are far deadlier than a tablet of oxycodone (compared to fentanyl perhaps not, even then… There’s a therapeutic dose of fentanyl, I’ve been given fentanyl before within a medical setting)
We don’t make a big deal about gun violence yet we make a HUGE deal about opiates to the point wherein patients who actually need these drugs are cut off.