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Dizzy from a Steady Diet of Guns.

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Written by John Glassco   
Monday, 28 January 2013 19:48
With over 10,000 gun related homicides and over 30,000 total gun deaths per year in the US, at some point we must face the fact that guns do kill people, often against the will of their owners. I would suspect that most of these deaths are regretted by almost everybody.

I am not sure how even a functional Congress could fix this. Our statistics for a so called advanced country are disappointing when compared with reducing deaths from say smoking or car crashes. Perhaps allowing the public health community to compile accurate statistics on gun related deaths would be a start. Universal background checks for all gun purchases seems like a no-brainer too, although I understand lots of people see this as worse than unnecessary.

In ten years, 21 deaths in the US were ruled as caused by stuck accelerator pedals. In 2010, this problem caused panic in the auto industry and immediate attention. Should not 30,000 deaths a year, many including the innocent be grounds for a serious plan to fix this?
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