Comments on: The ‘Science’: A Communal Understanding of Gun Violence Requires Treating Bullets a Pathogens

By: Simple Jack

Simple Jack — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 22:38:59 +0000

In reply to JimB. Yeah, Commies think bullets are like bacteria, so we should all wear masks to prevent freedom.

By: Simple Jack

Simple Jack — Thu, 20 Feb 2025 02:41:27 +0000

In reply to uncommon_sense. Doctors 10x kill more people than all gun related deaths every year. Keep that in mind.

By: JimB

JimB — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 23:46:29 +0000

Seriously…do you folks not bother to proofread your headlines?

By: Plinker

Plinker — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:58:51 +0000

In reply to 300BlackoutFan. You beat me to it. I think the total number of rounds fired would take the percentage to several places off the decimal point.

By: JC

JC — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 18:33:08 +0000

Somewhere in there should be reference to medical malpractice injury or death. A reasonable comparison don’t you think?

By: 300BlackoutFan

300BlackoutFan — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:48:07 +0000

In reply to uncommon_sense.

Billions of rounds of 5.56 or 9mm are shot each year (the ammo industry is ~$8B domestic and$68B internationally, annually).

Approximately 40k of those million rounds cause a fatality in the US – and that’s including suicides.
Even if you 10x that for woundings, the CFR is approaching 0.

When they are used to specifically inflict harm, the CFR approaches 100. The issue here is that not all lethal interactions are immoral / illegal, eg hunting, self defense.

By: Erik

Erik — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:40:50 +0000

OK, what is the percent of fatality for physician assisted suicide? I would assume we need to do more to keep doctors off the streets than AR-15s. Next we need to take into account there are about 30K deaths per year that can be attributed to firearms but in the same year there are roughly 200K deaths attributed to doctors. If we bear in mind there are close to 400 million firearms in the U.S. but less than 1 million doctors this would mean doctors are 2,400 times more deadly than firearms. These people need to be locked up in a separate location from medical instruments.

By: Hush

Hush — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:34:14 +0000

In reply to uncommon_sense. Those making a tampon purchase should have a TOID card too.

By: uncommon_sense

uncommon_sense — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:18:39 +0000

Any time someone starts spouting tripe about reducing access to firearms/ammunition in order to improve public health, I ask them to consider an exact parallel to see if they really are interested in improving public health or if they are using public health as a cudgel to ban firearms/ammunition.

Here is the parallel:
Suppose that 100,000 arsonists use tamp0ns to start building fires which kill 400,000 people every year. Would you therefore insist on high taxes, background checks, licensing, and 8-hour training courses (on the dangers of arson) before an individual can purchase tamp0ns?

The answer to the parallel is invariably, “no,” and that my parallel is not actually parallel to firearms misuse and proposed infringements. In other words, virtually all people who want to ban firearms and ammunition simply want to ban them and use “public health” to justify infringements. Plan accordingly.

By: Hush

Hush — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 16:06:27 +0000

In reply to Dude. Dude: For a long time JAMA has misled the public per their name. It actually is JAMDA or Just Another Medical Dumb Ass