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At HWFO we try to make complex mathematical concepts simple by using creative units and rate comparisons. Variously, we’ve visualized the costs of all government programs in units of “one border wall,” visualized the amount of CO2 averted by nuclear power in units of hot air balloons, visualized instances of natural disasters and civil unrest in units of one “mostly peaceful summer of 2020,” and similar. We also did the thing nobody else seemed to want to do during Covid, by comparing infection fatality rates of the disease against influenza by age bracket, to show how it was definitely more deadly than the flu to old people, but much safer for young people.

We’re also pro-gun around here, so I thought it might be instructive to compare the “danger” of sending your child to grade school against the danger of doing something everyone seems to do with no qualms in the modern age - board an airplane.

[Source.](https://hwfo.substack.com/p/scared-of-grade-school-shooters-dont) > At HWFO we try to make complex mathematical concepts simple by using creative units and rate comparisons. Variously, we’ve visualized the costs of all government programs in units of “one border wall,” visualized the amount of CO2 averted by nuclear power in units of hot air balloons, visualized instances of natural disasters and civil unrest in units of one “mostly peaceful summer of 2020,” and similar. We also did the thing nobody else seemed to want to do during Covid, by comparing infection fatality rates of the disease against influenza by age bracket, to show how it was definitely more deadly than the flu to old people, but much safer for young people. > We’re also pro-gun around here, so I thought it might be instructive to compare the “danger” of sending your child to grade school against the danger of doing something everyone seems to do with no qualms in the modern age - board an airplane.

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I use Chicago Saturdays as my measure. Oh, 17 killed at Stoneman Douglas? That's 1.47 Saturdays around here. 7 killed at Covenant school? That gets you to about 11pm on the average Saturday, 4 1/2 more coming.

But these are children! So were 286 of the people (out of 3,076) shot in Chicago in 2023 (https://heyjackass.com/2023-age-of-victim/)

The so called school shooting epidemic is either outright racism (don't care about black children) or political manipulation (don't care about any of them) as the victims of Chicago violence certainly never make the cut for the 11p news.

Excuse me, I'm gonna need you to register your firearms now. It's for the children. No, for those other children.