We are scared of dying in senseless, uncontrollable ways: airplane crashes, earthquakes, terrorism, random mass murder.
The difference is this, though: we can do something about the mass murders. My right-wing swimming buddy assured me confidently that more Americans are murdered with knives than guns. He was wrong, of course:
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We are scared of dying in senseless, uncontrollable ways: airplane crashes, earthquakes, terrorism, random mass murder.
The difference is this, though: we can do something about the mass murders. My right-wing swimming buddy assured me confidently that more Americans are murdered with knives than guns. He was wrong, of course:
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-th…
Yep. The table is all homicides.