Does reading a lot of Wikipedia give people a wrong idea how science works?

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

To date the highest casualty mass stabbing was in Kunming in 2014 which  killed 31 and wounded 141 people and that still took 9 people in a crowded railroad station to pull off. While the deadliest mass shooting was the Las Vegas Strip Massacre in 2017 which  killed 58 and wounded 546 and that was carried out by one person.I think the contrast between guns and other weapons is stark.

While mass shootings are tragic, they are very rare. People died in mass shootings represent a tiny fraction (I believe around 2%) of all gun deaths. Even if we take for granted that gun control reduces mass shootings (which is in no way obvious, as Norway and Macedonia have more mass shootings per capita than the US in spite of having much stricter gun laws), it in no way follows that it will do something about the vast majority of gun deaths. For the vast majority of gun deaths, other weapons would be about as effective as guns are.

Three mass shootings in the US today, making 564 this year. How is that ‘very rare’?

Boru