You’re More Likely To Die From Lightning Strike Than In Mass Shooting

By Tom Knighton

Recently, the New York Post ran a single page with the name of every person killed in a mass shooting since 1964 when Charles Whitman began firing from the top of a clock tower at the University of Texas.

For most, they just looked at the page full of names in fairly small print and sat stunned. For some of us, we hunted the name or names of people we knew and remembered both the good times and the horror of learning they were gone.

Someone else did something different. They recognized something important.

The 30 year average for deaths by lightning strikes in the United States? 43 per year. That’s 2,236 deaths over the same time period.

Hysteria makes for terrible policy. https://t.co/Nrct2adEt9

— Seán Fhirnuin Ui’Coinnigh (@svkenney) August 12, 2019

If this is accurate, then your chances of being killed by lightning were greater than being killed in a mass shooting.

So, I did a little digging. Sure enough, the 30-year average for lightning fatalities is, indeed, 43 per year. That’s more than the number of people killed in mass shootings.

Now, does that mean we shouldn’t try and figure out how to stop them? Of …Read the Rest

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