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To answer the question in the subject line of the thread: because of medical advances in keeping severely injured people alive. Correct, being murdered now happens almost never, but being almost murdered happens quite a lot.
The two people shot in Tompkins Park on Saturday weren't murdered, because as Steve Cuozzo points out, you're are unlikely to be murdered.
Notwithstanding Steve Cuozzo's view, you can still get shot. But he considers that a win since you weren't murdered.
I'm not sure that being shot, but not murdered, is a good enough consolation prize for living in New York City.
"Two innocent bystanders were shot in broad daylight in Tompkins Square Park, police said.
A 26-year-old man was hit in the buttocks and a 53-year-old woman was struck in the right hip around 12:45 p.m. Saturday, cops said. The shooting took place between the 7th and 9th Street entrances on the west side of the park, police sources said.
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