Chicago homicides in 2022: 695 people were slain.

And that is just one city. Why aren't you guys as worked up about that horrendous statistic.

You're right. It IS horrendous. But it doesn't generate the attention that a mass shooting does in part because it's a continuous drip-drip-drip instead of a blow-out. And in part because the motivations are different. Homicides typically target another individual for a reason.....revenge (domestic, gang, etc) or theft. Sometimes innocent bystanders are killed as well because they're in the line of fire. Mass killings are motivated by highly destructive antisocial angers that have been incubated until they reach a breaking point, and exclusively take the lives of innocent people who are in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Getting guns under effective control will reduce all of these numbers dramatically. And it will also remove guns as the most common cause now of childhood deaths.

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