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Well fuck me, time to move to California and setup shop as a serial killer. According to you I can get into three digits before anyone should even bother to care!

Do I really need to explain the problems with your math?

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I'm not really a huge fan of hyperbole--I don't think it makes for useful conversations online (which are hard enough already, even on HN), and I don't believe any reasonable interpretation of my comment above supports your argument.

Feel free to explain the problems with my math, whatever math there was. Tell me how ~20 people a year is the greatest public safety threat CA faces.

You just white washed the death of "fewer than a thousand people" with a specious argument, and you don't think that counts as hyperbole?

Again, explain to me how your line of argument wouldn't also excuse a serial killer?

I said the death of 20 people a year does not make it the greatest threat to public safety in the state, not that it isn't a tragedy to be mitigated. Objectively this is true, does that make you upset?

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