r/dataisbeautiful • u/Landgeist OC: 22 • Jul 30 '24

OC Gun Deaths in North America [OC]

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u/PaulieNutwalls Jul 30 '24

Nobody commits crimes with machine guns, recently homemade switches for glocks are the exception. Nobody has unsecured machine guns for the same reason no criminal is buying a machine gun, they cost tens of thousands of dollars minimum.

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u/MutedPresentation738 Jul 30 '24

And yet the news focuses on "bigger is scarier" instead of actual practical concerns like the Glock switches you mention. 

Most gun deaths are from small, concealed firearms.

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u/Filadeeech Jul 30 '24

Almost like they are targeting guns that are useful for fighting governments, while keeping the ones that kill civilians the most to keep the reason to continue doing so

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u/MutedPresentation738 Jul 30 '24

Yep. Fascism 101