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In reply to the discussion: My great uncle, his wife and son were all gunned down in cold blood back in 1963. [View all]Blanks
(4,835 posts)...who died because they have poor eating habits (a choice they have made) is equivalent to someone gunning you down?
While automobile accidents are tragic, and especially so when an innocent person is killed by a drunk driver. Millions of people drive millions of miles every day; performing a function that is required in order to obtain necessary supplies. Nobody needs guns, if people weren't allowed to own guns; most police officers wouldn't even need guns.
Why people go off the deep end isn't really the issue; why we insist on allowing someone to do so much damage when they do go off the deep end is the issue.
We need cars, we need food, we don't need guns. We require driver education before granting a license, we have food education in school.
We don't have gun education in schools; because we don't need guns.