[Dr Winston O Boogie jr]

Let me say a few things here. First of all, the story in the link in the original post is full of inaccuracies. It is meant to get people all fired up about gun deaths. They include, in their statistics things like a 90 year old retired school teacher with a fatal disease committing suicide with a gun as a school shooting. They have search far and wide for gun deaths remotely related to someone at or near a school in order to boost their numbers in order to start this kind of debate.

The second thing is that gun death rates are at close to an all time low in this country today. These same anti gun activists are trying to create a problem where there is none.

There are approximately 32,000 gun deaths in this country each year. Sixty per cent 60% of those are suicides. About 3% are accidents. That leaves about 11,000 gun deaths out of a population of 330,000,000. That's approximately .00003% of our population getting shot and killed each year.

Now pay attention to this. about 80% of those 11,000 gun deaths are gang related. They are gang members killing each other. Does anyone think that stricter gun laws are going to prevent gang members from killing each other?

That leaves us with about 2,200 gun deaths per year out of a population of 330,000,000.

Now these 2200 incidents are certainly regrettable and the school shootings that the press sensationalizes are truly tragic. But, as you can see, the problem is fairly small and the answer is not to take away the rights of millions of law abiding citizens.