alt Hacker NewsWell the Republicans aren’t causing mass suicides. The obliviously mass shooting are more important. I’m want to not get shot.
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mmooss • today at 8:28 PM
They are, depending on your definition of 'mass':
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47866222
The number of people lost is much higher than from shootings, I'm pretty sure.
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I mean... important by what metric?
Active shootings in the US kill like 100 people a year (as of 2024 I guess: https://www.fbi.gov/file-repository/reports-and-publications...)
Suicides is more like 50,000/yr