Very sad about the deaths today, however at some point these deaths need to be put into perspective. And for you Gun Control believers, apparently you think that you can legislate crazy. Good luck with that. Here's some stats, the number of people killed in 2011:
Automobiles = 32,367
Guns = 9,146
Looks like we need legislation to get the crazy's off of the road far more than we need to focus on gun control.
Neither of these make the top 10 causes of death in the USA:
Heart Attack (very rare when with a provider) = 599, 413
Cancer = 567,628
Lower respiratory disease = 137,353
Stroke = 128,842
Unintentional Injury (accidents) = 118,021
Alzheimer's = 79,003
Diabetes = 68,705
Flu + Pneumonia = 53,692
Nephritis, Nephrosis = 48,935
Suicide = 36, 909
Originally Posted by Charlie Drake
What is the point of comparing gun deaths to accidental deaths and diseases? What does that prove? You're comparing apples and oranges.
The mortality rate for humans is 100%. Sooner or later, something is going to get everyone of us. The key word is "sooner".
Gun deaths cut people's lives short. They are intentional, not accidental. They are unnatural, not natural.
If someone is shot and killed in his 20s or 30s, it is no consolation to him or his family that natural causes would eventually gotten him in his 70s or 80s, anyway.
We have to learn to live with and accept the things we cannot change - ultimate death in the (hopefully) distant future.
But we don't have to accept mass murder of children by guns.