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Comment on Car crashes have killed and seriously injured roughly the same number of people as shootings in Chicago this year. Only one of these things is treated as a safety crisis in the media

ohwhatfollyisman@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

this is not a valid comparison. the number of people in and around cars–and the amount of interactions that the average person has with a car–vastly outstrips those near or using guns. by at least two orders of magnitude, one would estimate.

it’s like saying that the number of papercuts received is marginally higher than the number of intentional stab wounds and the media only focuses on one.

that’s how it should be. one of those two things impacts a larger percentage of the people that encounter it.

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Goldmage263@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
That doesn’t make the comparison invalid, it can just be misleading to those with poor data literacy. Knowing how many “preventable” deaths from each source is valuable, but only if people are planning to do something about it.

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- Korhaka@sopuli.xyz ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  No one does. Every road safety measure is pretty universally lobbied against.
  
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