Another day in America where we need nothing short of repealing the 2A and confiscating all guns.

[sammythecat]

94. Somehow, I see a difference too.

88,000 alcohol related deaths last year vs. 40,000 firearm related deaths. In my lifetime I've gone to 8 funerals of friends killed by drunk drivers. Luckily, I've never know anyone shot to death, or even shot. That's just anecdotal, doesn't necessarily prove anything, but the 88,000 vs 40,000 is fact. Another really cool consequence of alcohol is the unknown number of children and families that are permanently fucked up and damaged because of alcohol. I was a child in one of those families. The number is unknown but it must be in the millions.

You and I have something in common. We both abstain from a vice that has never tempted us. Smoking for you, drinking for me, and neither one of us has any reason at all to be proud or self-righteous about our abstinence. Unlike many other unfortunates, we never had to fend off the temptation to keep doing something we knew was going to be a problem. No temptation overcome, no virtue. And no reason for us to have zero (as in NO) sympathy for those who have had to do battle and lost.