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

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

Boru

I wonder, how many would constitute a problem that we should, you know, do something about?

Maybe when the mass shooters start putting Republican politicians, their kids, NRA executives, and their kids are in the target groups, we'll finally see something accomplished.

I'm not holding my breath that either the Reps or the Dems will ever actually do anything other than make comforting sounds over the corpses of the innocent.