The difference is that mass shootings have never inspired a single effective action to ensure that they never happen again. The equivalent would be if nobody worked on flu vaccines, or effective treatment, despite people needlessly dying from it.
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Medical errors: staff can be suspended, fired, have their licenses to practice medicine revoked. Patients or their families can sue the hospital. Staff can be re-trained, if appropriate, or punished. Policies can be made to prevent it happening again (see Harold Shipman case).
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18 years ago we had a single shoe bomber who didn't kill anyone—and we completely altered airport screening for the country. Maybe we should respond to handgun deaths with that kind of urgency—and maybe you posting this is a slap in the face to 34 families planning funerals.
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Tweet je nedostupan.
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Tweet je nedostupan.
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We just don't get what a senseless mass shooting has to do with any of the other data he's talking about

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Let's look at that data
@neiltyson 500 medical errors probably caused by 500 people 300 flu deaths due to 300 instances of flu 250 acts of suicide committed by 250 people 200 car accidents caused by 200 people 34 shot dead by 2 people. Are you sure it's not the data? -
It's not just these specific 48 hours. His stats are EVERY 48 hours. It's a valid point that deaths aren't causing the emotional reaction, it's the spectacle. The angry replies are actually proving his point.
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A good point but I think it should also be considered that the emotional response has a value that should not go ignored. Shootings are horrific and have an impact on us disconnected from the individuals involved unlike other causes of death, although all death is a tragedy.
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The problem with this tweet is that it isn't a good point. It's whataboutism. It's dismissing the problem. Humanity can focus on more than one problem at a time. And, at least for me, people intentionally killing others for their ethnicity or religion is a far worse offense.
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