I’ve not posted on here in ages, but I popped the following on facebook and wanted to make sure I had it to hand…
This just popped into my head. Trump’s campaign received (a quick Google tells me) $21m from the NRA – who also spent $19m in non-partisan anti-Hillary advertising, etc. But we’ll stick to that $21m.
Since the orange shitball took over, there have been 35 deaths (students and staff) in school shootings, including one on his inauguration day [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_shootings_in_the_United_States#2017].
In the same period, including the above where relevant, 103 people have died in mass shootings [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_shootings_in_the_United_States].
Over 15,591 people died from gunshots in the US in 2017, not including suicides (22,000!) [http://www.gunviolencearchive.org/past-tolls].
So, let’s put this in terms that Trump can understand:
One student or faculty member is worth $600,000
One mass shooting victim is worth $203,883.50
One person killed by a firearm (non-suicide) is worth $1346.93
One person killed by a firearm (inc suicides) is worth $558.64
The price of a life, eh? And of course, as time goes on and those numbers of dead rise, the value of a life falls.
Hope the NRA are pleased with the bargain they got.
Did you ever find out what happened to Brian and Kurt?
Trump had them assassinated by Russian spies in the runup to the election.
Allegedly.