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MAURICE LAMARCHE
@MAURICELAMARCHE
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@neiltyson
So what’s the magic number at which you’ll become concerned? Also curious, what are the comparable stats for Canada, or the UK, or Australia, with that whole shooting to flu to car accidents to medical error thing you just did? See, I’m not a genius, I only play one on TV.
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David Sobolov
@volobos
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@MAURICELAMARCHE
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@neiltyson
The Republicans had 3 wedge issues to energize the base - gays, guns, and God. Gay marriage is settled so they added white supremacy and use God to justify prejudice and keep old voters. To win they keep gun bills out of the Senate and cheat by avoiding Russian hacking bills...
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Gavagan
@RobGavagan
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@neiltyson
Emotions tend to respond more to spectacle when that spectacle is an act of terrorism literally conceived to surge emotions in order to enact social/political change. Almost all the things on your list are the result of human error. Mass shootings aren’t.
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Gavagan
@RobGavagan
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@RobGavagan
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@neiltyson
Almost all the things on your list also usually have only one victim per event. Medical malpractice isn’t the result of a doctor injecting and killing 30 patients with a deadly chemical in the course of 10 minutes. Imagine if multiple doctors, unpredictably, did this.
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Ben Norton
@BenjaminNorton
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@neiltyson
*two fascists massacre dozens of civilians in 24 hours, one even writing he hoped to start a race war that will ethnically cleanse or kill millions of Latinos* Science Guy: The Data says we should be worrying much more, 9 times more in fact, about the flu
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Neil deGrasse Tyson
@neiltyson
In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings. On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose… 500 to Medical errors 300 to the Flu 250 to Suicide 200 to Car Accidents 40 to Homicide via Handgun Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.
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