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Originally Posted by Dr Winston O Boogie jr
In 2013, (the latest statistics available) there were approximately 33,000 deaths by gun. Approximately 21,000 of them were suicides. A small percentage were accidents and justifiable homicides. That leaves about 10,000 violent gun deaths.
That is approximately, .0003% of our population. Maybe it's not as big an issue as we think.
Honduras bans it's citizens from owning guns. They have the highest murder rate in the world with 83% of those murders being committed by gun.
On the other hand in that same year there were 88,000 alcohol related deaths. Why aren't we hearing cries to regulate or ban alcohol?
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Excellent question for which I have a very strong opinion.
Alcohol of course has many strings attached to too many levels of politics, industrial and corporate America.
So too many in the so called right places have too much too lose, hence there is little or no actions cried for to reduce the alcohol related carnage.
We are a very hypocritical society. Another example?
We have all heard of MADD (mother's against drunk driving). Has anybody ever heard of MACD (mothers against cell phone deaths)? Of course not. What is the difference? The mothers have little invested in or not involved in the use of alcohol to a level that matters. However, cell phones, they are all addicted to and anything that threatens to take them away is not acceptable. Hence we will never ever see or hear of any action from these same mothers against the death toll caused by cell phone use while driving.
Because they are invested in the issue. A cause of death the easily equals drunk driving!!!
It is, has been and always will be about special interests groups.