Something is very wrong with your analysis (fortunately, it doesn't completely alter your point). Using 910 deaths in a population of 26 million, is about a 1 in 28,500 chance of dying, far higher than 1 in a million. In the US, to use official numbers, the odds are something like 1 in 500.
Even at 1 in 28,500, ask yourself if you would be comfortable going to a football game or concert knowing that at some point during the event they would be firing a rifle randomly into the crowd.
I am ABSOLUTELY NOT saying this is cause to completely upend society over, or relinquish all of our basic freedoms, but I think sometimes people are too quick to dismiss this as nothing, when in fact it is something. A very overblown something, but still something.
And I would add that, while I'm solidly middle aged, if you're a twenty year old, it really is nothing.
Something is very wrong with your analysis (fortunately, it doesn't completely alter your point). Using 910 deaths in a population of 26 million, is about a 1 in 28,500 chance of dying, far higher than 1 in a million. In the US, to use official numbers, the odds are something like 1 in 500.
Even at 1 in 28,500, ask yourself if you would be comfortable going to a football game or concert knowing that at some point during the event they would be firing a rifle randomly into the crowd.
I am ABSOLUTELY NOT saying this is cause to completely upend society over, or relinquish all of our basic freedoms, but I think sometimes people are too quick to dismiss this as nothing, when in fact it is something. A very overblown something, but still something.
And I would add that, while I'm solidly middle aged, if you're a twenty year old, it really is nothing.