The fun thing about statistics is the human brain's inability to comprehend large numbers.
40,000 is a huge number, a decent sized town or a giant stadium filled to capacity... a good, shocking number because we have likely experienced and can easily visualize a crowd of 40,000 people. And yes, imagining that many people dying is indeed a terrifying proposition.
But try to imagine 320
million people... we simply can't wrap our heads around a number that big and inevitably see it abstractly!
The reality is, 40,000 out of 320,0000,000 (the current population of the USA) is only 0.000125% but since we can comprehend 40K people but not 300 million we give more emphasis to the smaller number.
Now consider a good 25,000 of those deaths are suicides, and that homicides by guns are obviously not evenly distributed around the country...
In reality, if you don't hang out in certain parts of Chicago or engage in risky criminal enterprises your chances of being a victim of gun violence are infinitesimally small.
In other words,
THERE IS NO REASON TO BE SCARED. This "public health emergency" really isn't... it's basically just "dogs" herding the "sheep" in the direction the "rancher" wants them to go.
The question
should be: "Why DO
they want us all to run in that direction anyway?"
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I've never heard anyone suggest that. Who told you that?
