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Europe has more heat deaths per year than the United States loses to gun deaths. Here is coverage from o3. Here is the source tweet from Crémieux, though some of those figures are contested. “European figures come from excess-mortality models that capture deaths aggravated by heat (cardiovascular, respiratory, etc.). U.S. counts mostly rely on a doctor or coroner writing “heat” on the death certificate, which is known to undercount.” Reminds me of the dying of Covid vs dying from Covid debate. Exactly. Besides people who die from heat are elderly, already dying from something else whereas those dying from gunshots could be any age but mostly young and middle-aged. Completely different lost QALY. Also, Europeans in general live longer than people in the US. It is very little solace for Americans to say – we care more about our elderly and don't allow them to die from heat if they die sooner from something else anyway. It's not really a contest -- just a comparison to give a sense of th

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