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The issue that you imagine is not our actual reality. Our day to day life in America is very safe overall, and there's no reason to live in fear of shootings because they are very rare. Most people in the USA have never seen a person shot in real life. What you see on the news is amplification of every violent event, without the perspective that these are a tiny fraction of a percent of the overall experience.
Homicides by firearms are not even in the top 10 causes of death in the USA. People keep clamoring on and on about "all the kids getting shot" but when you look at the actual numbers, 99.9999% children are not affected by gun violence. It's simply not an urgent problem that has a viable solution.
I lived in the US for 11 years and know at least someone who was affected by a shooting. I don't think I'm just imagining things.
Well of course some people are affected by it. I said most people have never seen any person shot in real life, in the USA. It's not happening everywhere all the time like people seem to think it is. Violent crime of all types is in fact rare in the USA, only affecting a small fraction of a percent of the population.
There's quite a lot of people affected by it, there's no need to diminish the numbers by speaking in percentages or exaggerating my claims to absurdity. I don't think 52 school shootings last year is nothing--that's one every week. That's too many young people killed every single week. And of course it's not happening everywhere all the time, nobody says that. My point is that getting randomly shot at the mall or at a school on a shooting spree is a reality that exists in the US that's almost non-existent where I live. Unfortunately for us, gun violence from organized crime is very much a problem for us precisely because the US refuses to regulate its gun trade because the conversation always goes sideways.