>>515617355
It's completely serious, there's a constant push to misrepresent the context of the statistics, and an honest debater is tasked with clearing up those misrepresentations.
The gun control narrative wants all gun deaths, and especially mass shootings, to be seen as a personal threat to the general public, to maximize fear, and stir change.
What is the average mass shooting? They would have you think it's an event where fifteen random people are shot to death at a grocery store. How common are mass shootings in America? Hundreds per year, they tallied it up. That's a big scary number, we all must live in fear of this threat, no tradeoff of freedom or statistics of defensive gun usage could ever outweigh this monstrosity!
But what did they actually tally up? Four gang members shot by a rival gang member, and other such events. That doesn't make the national news, we don't care, they don't care, they know we don't care, but they relish in the opportunity to add it to their tally.