• @[email protected]
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    -84 months ago

    I’ve lived my entire life here, and I have never in my life seen a car crash into a building, or the aftermath of a car crashing into a building.

    For over 30 of those years, I’ve lived in two of the 10 largest cities.

    • @[email protected]
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      104 months ago

      I’ve never witnessed neither a car crash nor a gunshot here in Sweden, yet I know they happen at non-zero rates in my country.

      The point being, anecdotal experience has no bearing on the actual frequency of events.

    • AwesomeLowlander
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      44 months ago

      There were 600+ mass shootings in the US in 2023, almost 2 a day. The fact that most people don’t see it happening or the immediate aftermath doesn’t change the fact that they do happen.

    • @grue
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      14 months ago

      Counterpoint: it happens in Atlanta so often that, just off the top of my head, I can name at least one place (this Zesto) where drivers have crashed into the same building multiple times.