https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a35wag/neil-degrasse-tysons-objectively-true-information-about-mass-shootings-is-worthless

This weekend, Twitter flooded with reactions to the two mass shootings El Paso, Texas and Dayton, Ohio. There was outrage at Congress's inaction on gun control, and the white supremacist rhetoric espoused by right-wing politicians, right-wing media, and one of the shooters. Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson had a different take: people die all the time.

Tyson, who remains in charge of New York City's Hayden Planetarium after being accused of sexual harassment, tweeted on Sunday in response to the shootings. In the tweet, he listed the average 48-hour death toll of five other preventable deaths, all of which exceeded the number of people who died in those two shootings. The death toll is currently 31, with many more injured. He closed with “Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data.”