Very good tweet.
Some perspective, in good.
The original article, by the leftist:
His twitter feed:
The tweet itself:
https://twitter.com/neiltyson/status/1158074774297468928
Wait, WUT? Kneel said what? Upside down world. Any mention of how many die from glow bull warning every day. But, perspective will get you cussed out apparently.
Not sure what his point is.
Wow. Finally Grassy Ass Tyson puts out a good Tweet...and the left savages him for it
My favorite response is ‘what law prevents such mass shooting tragedies’ after pointing out all the things regulating or mitigating the other options...
Yeah, if only we had a law against murder...
He neglected the 400 deaths in a 24 hour period due to overdoses. The left places a much higher value on deaths (based on their reaction) that advances their efforts to control us.
deGrasse Tyson stats - bump for later....
This journalist's side in this has not produced and offered any "intelligent or productive discourse" as far as I can see.
Major props for N. Tyson here. He’s about to get a good whiff of leftist hate. Why? For using his brain the way it was trained to do. To think about things rationally. But this is a big no-no on the left, even for scientists - leftism uber alles. Good. Good. Such undeserved hatred will only serve to drive science, and scientists, in the right direction: toward rationality (finally, one hopes), and away from irrational leftist dogma.
Just saying.
I think God’s knocking on a lot of doors.
His shipmates sure seem butthurt. Neil shouldn’t be spouting the truth.
Hmmm.
If he doesn’t cave after he’s savaged by the left, I might just pick up his Cosmos dvds.
Fast forwarding through the Obama intro, of course.
I can’t believe Neil deGrasse Tyson said something I agree with!!!!
He’s apparently thinking along the same lines I am. I did a little poking around, and some math too, after looking through the news reports and quite a few comments about the shootings this weekend.
Here’s some of what I found...
I keep hearing we have more guns in this country than people...OK so let’s say 300 million guns. Yes that’s a low estimate, at least 315 million people but I wanted just a round number, and somewhere close. So I used the generic figure 300 million.
I have to wonder why we don’t see millions of people killed every year if liberals are right, guns kill people...Of course we know they are wrong, a person has to pick the thing up and pull the trigger. And liberals are consummate liars...
OK so let’s say 300 million guns, just for the sake of argument.
Total number of firearm murders in 2017 (According to CDC numbers) 14,542.
A little quick math shows that means .0000485% of the guns in this country were used to commit murders. And that’s actually a low number, if we do have more guns than people, and does not distinguish between legally and illegally acquired guns. That;s also total guns, not subdivided into rifles etc, and also not subdivided into gang shootings, mass shootings etc. Just overall total number of murders.
In the CDC list of causes of death, guns don’t even make the top 10. The top 10 are:
Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis - 50,633
Pneumonia and flu - 55,672
Diabetes - 83,564
Alzheimer’s disease - 121,404
Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases) - 146,383
Chronic lower respiratory diseases - 160,201
Accidents (unintentional injuries) - 169,936
Cancer - 599,108
And the winner is:
Heart disease - 647,457
Gun homicides 14,542.
Incidentally I decided to take another step, that’s .00225% of the number of deaths due to heart disease, the #1 cause of death in America in 2017. The lowest of those numbers, Nephritis, 50,633, is more than 3 times the number of firearm homicides.
Auto accidents - 40,231 Almost 3 times the number of gun homicides. (43,626 would be 3X)
Suicide by firearm - 23,854 A little under twice the number of homicides by firearm.
Drug induced deaths - 73,990, but it does not quantify overdose versus over prescription, wrong prescription, drug interactions etc.
Interesting that the number of firearm related homicides is far below the number of even suicides and well below the top 10, considering all the hype we hear from liberals intent on gun confiscation. Especially when you do a little math and boil it down to a percentage...
For those interested in looking the complete list over I’ll save you some looking,
https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/leading-causes-of-death.htm
I think the PDF I downloaded is the one in the bottom section, Final Data for 2017. I have it open now for reference. Ummmm, well, just closed it a minute ago actually...
(Astrophysicist) Neil deGrasse Tyson committed a hate crime. Deaths of 'people of color' are not to be confused with other deaths that don't involved 'hate'...
(Astrophysicist) Neil deGrasse Tyson's name has been turned over to the FBI for investigation. He will be fired from his job for this offense. His apology was NOT strong enough./s
Wait....what ?
500 deaths every 2 days due to medical errors ? Exactly what do they mean by errors ?