Do yall feel safe going to malls in the coming days ?

Odds are one way of looking at managing personal risk, [but a terrible way of excusing the problem. ](https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/) Let’s look at this another way, but use the 2021 stats (706) because I couldn’t find your 600 for 2022. The UK, which has a broadly similar gathering culture (and probably more in-person social overall) than the US had [35 total murders by firearm in 2021.](https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-7654/) In totality. In Australia, there were *zero* mass shootings in 2021… 2022… 2023… and there are barely any since 1990, and those that [are listed mostly aren’t random acts of violence](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_in_Australia). Gun murders and gun violence generally is so low [it’s not even broken out in their official crime stats. ](https://www.abs.gov.au/statistics/people/crime-and-justice/recorded-crime-victims/latest-release) Looking to the North, Canada, we’re actually much closer to the US, and while more polite, Canadians have a lot in common with the US demographically and culturally. In 2021, firearms do get used in a lot of crime, in Canada, but people don’t tend to get shot as much as they do in the US. [297 for 2021. ](https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-005-x/2022001/article/00002-eng.htm) So back to the US… in addition to the 706 Mads shooting victims in 2021, [there were 20,252 gun murders alone](https://injuryfacts.nsc.org/home-and-community/safety-topics/guns/) (suicides is a higher number still). The countries I cited above are, culturally, quite similar to the US. We all like movies, malls, live sports, cars, and all that shit. There’s minor differences, but an alien couldn’t tell the difference. What’s the difference?