News treats a 340‑million‑person nation as if it were a single town, amplifying rare tragedies into a felt epidemic. Adjusting for scale and using standard definitions (e.g., 4+ victims killed) shows mass school shootings are extremely rare relative to ~100,000 K–12 schools.
— This reframes how media, policymakers, and the public should communicate about risk, urging base‑rate, nation‑scale thinking over anecdote‑driven fear.
Edouard Mathieu
2025.10.06
65% relevant
The article highlights that violent deaths (e.g., homicide, conflict) are a tiny share of global mortality while the news often centers them, mirroring the 'town‑scale' framing problem where rare events are over‑amplified and everyday lethal risks are undercovered.
José Duarte
2025.10.02
100% relevant
The article claims there have been only about ten mass school shootings in the last 25 years under the classic federal 4‑fatality definition, yet national coverage 'marinates' audiences as if events were locally recurrent.
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