Re: Guns

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Very bad. Very, very bad.


Posted by: Flippanter | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 7:21 AM
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I'm going to be Mr. Positive for once. The primary reason for this is a huge decline in the number of deaths due to motor vehicle crashes over the last 20 years. Hurray!


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 7:35 AM
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I'll take it!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 7:44 AM
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At least we aren't doing anything crazy like using numbers to make decisions about risk


Posted by: yoyo | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 8:02 AM
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"Malignant neoplasm" is the third most frequent cause of death?


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 8:03 AM
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5: That's cancer.


Posted by: Cala | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 8:05 AM
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Thanks. I could have googled.


Posted by: NickS | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 8:10 AM
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dang, it sure sounded like something you'd call Ghostbusters about.


Posted by: Doug | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 8:14 AM
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BACK OFF MAN, I'M A SCIENTIST!


Posted by: Opinionated Bill Murray | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 8:15 AM
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On the not-so-positive-side, my hopes for Covid silver linings have not panned out. There were fewer school shootings while many schools were closed, but still more kids got shot. And there was less driving while people were working from home, but still more people died in car accidents.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 9:48 AM
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People are very noticeably worse at driving than in the before times.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 9:52 AM
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11: Brain damage due to Long Covid?


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 10:25 AM
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My pet theory is not that we forgot how to be sociable creatures or that the social fabric deteriorated. I think it's specifically conservative asswipes who really enjoyed having the world to themselves during 2020 and parts of 2021. They got to go to all these empty restaurants, fly for cheap, the roads were empty, etc. It was like the anti-rapture in the best way for them. Now all the smarmy libs have re-appeared, and they're seething with anger, and they have the emotional intelligence of a masturbating monkey, so they're flinging shit everywhere.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 10:36 AM
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(On why there's more road rage now.)


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 10:36 AM
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conservative asswipes who really enjoyed having the world to themselves during 2020 and parts of 2021

I don't know about this. I didn't get the impression they were having a good time. I thought they were furious about not being able to get haircuts, manicures, pedicures etc


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 10:56 AM
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15: Also perpetually in danger of asphyxiation due to masking.


Posted by: peep | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 10:58 AM
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Fair point. But they are capable of whining relentlessly then and resenting it when sane people start to socialize again now.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 11:03 AM
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I think at least part of it is that more people became delivery drivers and are aggressive because that's how you make it pay.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 11:10 AM
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I think 13 is plausible, with the proviso that some of them are otherwise apolitical car-obsessed assholes (the vroom-vroom types).


Posted by: Minivet | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 12:33 PM
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That graph with the downward motor accidents deaths intersecting with the upward firearm deaths always gets me: some of the best and worst aspects of our society walking past each other.


Posted by: Ile | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 1:16 PM
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Maybe people are driving fast because they are afraid of getting shot?


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 1:24 PM
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That may just be an artifact of changing classification of shootouts while driving.


Posted by: Eggplant | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 1:24 PM
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Obviously, if no one gets hit by a bullet directly, you need to count it as a traffic death regardless of how many shots hit the car.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 1:36 PM
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Also striking in that graph: the big upswing in drug overdoses.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 1:47 PM
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Yeah. What happened in 2019?!


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 1:48 PM
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Oh wait. That's just a linear connection to the upswing in 2020. Something happened in 2020.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 1:49 PM
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It's a mystery.


Posted by: heebie-geebie | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 1:52 PM
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I though the fentanyl contamination/lacing uptick actually started in earnest in 2019?


Posted by: Ile | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 3:07 PM
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The fentanyl is in drugs, not Ernest.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 3:08 PM
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Anyway, the moral of the story is that wiping down your groceries caused drug overdoses.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 3:19 PM
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The fentanyl was in the wipes.


Posted by: teofilo | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 3:21 PM
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Naloxone in the masks.


Posted by: Moby Hick | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 3:23 PM
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Maybe we're focusing on the wrong part of "drug overdose and poisoning".


Posted by: fake accent | Link to this comment | 05- 5-22 10:51 PM
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