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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMore people will be killed by guns in the USA alone this year than
from any virus. CDC should pay the same attention to gun violence.
This is not to trivialize the virus in China because I have been told that it is no hoax and is very serious but gun violence will kill way more people this year.
I wish we'd see the same panicking about the slaughter of innocents with guns.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)around with gunz.
No life matters - Perfect
Initech
(100,114 posts)"Were the guns harmed? No. Move along, nothing to see here! You can blame everything but the gun - swimming pools, cars, ladders, skydiving, you name it."
and don't forget 55,000 deaths in car accidents, 8,200 20,000 flu deaths every year.
while some folks use cars as weapons,they were not created to kill. Guns are produced for only one purpose - to kill
marble falls
(57,401 posts)NickB79
(19,277 posts)Sadly, suicide prevention and mental health care are still underfunded and stigmatized in this country
The only new gun laws we could enact to address this are red flag laws to get guns out of their hands when they're in a crisis. But that's only if their families are brave enough to act before it's too late.
malaise
(269,237 posts)You are 100% correct on that
needledriver
(836 posts)hardluck
(641 posts)Check the CDC stats.
Liberal In Texas
(13,600 posts)It actually might kill more of us than guns!
Video shows victims who have died laying in hospital corridors because, it would seem there is no room in the morgues.
So, I guess we don't worry about gun violence, the virus is going to get us.
jmg257
(11,996 posts)80-92% of the offenders have criminal records.
Think thered be some significant way to deal with all those guns ending up in all the wrong hands.