Lndlocked, where the problem comes in with your argument is the phrase people love to use: "shooting deaths." It makes it seem like these are the only types of deaths anyone is concerned with with. It as if people take up their cross and jump on a situation to move their agendas forward without any thought to other real issues like the one Bucco and others are pointing out.
Violent crime trends in the US are down and in 2011 were at the lowest since 1969. Take a look at this and tell me where the US ranks.
http://www.genevadeclaration.org/fil...ummary-ENG.pdf
There are approximately 200 million privately owned firearms in the US. This doesn’t include law enforcement and military weapons.
In 2011, the number of murders in the US were the lowest since 1968.
This is an excellent read if anyone is interested:
The Facts about Mass Shootings - John Fund - National Review Online
"Until the Newtown horror, the three worst K–12 school shootings ever had taken place in either Britain or Germany.
"Almost all of the public-policy discussion about Newtown has focused on a debate over the need for more gun control. In reality, gun control in a country that already has 200 million privately owned firearms is likely to do little to keep weapons out of the hands of criminals. We would be better off debating two taboo subjects — the laws that make it difficult to control people with mental illness and the growing body of evidence that 'gun-free' zones, which ban the carrying of firearms by law-abiding individuals, don’t work."