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Heat deaths are almost entirely due to harvesting effect, i.e. comorbidity deaths.

Unless you are a psychopath and consider shooting another person intentionally a harvest death, they're not the same.

I don't understand the point you're trying to make. Of course heat wave deaths and being shot is not the same.

That's the point. GP deceptively suggests that what the EU escapes in gun deaths, it makes back in spades in heat deaths, providing GP with great ideological schadenfreude. Except this doesn't actually follow, in part because these are fundamentally different mortality categories indeed (and in part because the counting methodologies involved are drastically different, etc).

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