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>A child is ~100x more likely to die from a drug overdose than a mass shooting, and ~10x from a car crash. Yet our perception is skewed because of what we see in the news / shared.

Wait, I have the opposite reaction to the car crash comparison. Is that accurate? It blows my mind that the odds of a child in the US dying in a mass shooting is only a single order of magnitude less than the chance they die in a car crash...

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Both car safety and emergency medicine have got a lot better over time.

In Czechia, the death toll from car crashes is one third of what it used to be at the end of the last century. And people definitely do not drive less.

> Both car safety and emergency medicine have got a lot better over time.

Don't let the walkable city and cycling activists hear you say that. From the way they tell it, modern cars have become rampaging murder machines.

You are talking about safety inside of a car, the activists are talking about safety outside of a car

Couldn’t find good stats for shootings and children but it looks like 1000 kids die each year in the US from car accidents so all it would take is 10 kids dying a year in shootings which doesn’t seem like many at all (just consider kids in street gangs etc).

‘Mass shooting’ has different definitions depending on country/agency. In the US I think it just means a shooting (not necessarily a death) involving more than 2 people.

That's two orders of magnitude, but your point stands. I think way fewer children die in car accidents than I imagined.

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