In the last 5 months there have been at least 71 kids killed by guns. Average just under 6 years old

[marble falls]

67. Your inability to deal with the facts is epidomy of the gun nut and the gun ban debate...

and debaters. They are all arguing somewhere south of the facts. Crime is down, gun ownership of guns is down. I'm sick of the lot of them all.

I am disgusted it is all right to carry a loaded assault rifle in the parking lot of the venue where the President is, legally or not. I am disgusted that Wayne LaPierre's son was arrested waving a firearm at road rage incident (disarm the simple ass permanently). I am sick and tired of people giving mentally challenged children serious, serious firearms that end up shooting other kids

But in Niall Ferguson’s The Ascent of Money he cites the following statistics in chronicling the rise of the modern insurance business: the odds of the average American dying by gun shot are 1 in 314. That’s much higher than the odds that one will die in a fire (1 in 1,358) or die by natural disaster (1 in 3,288). By the way, the ‘death by gun shot’ statistic does not include suicide. The odds of dying by one’s own hand are even higher at 1 in 119. One is even more likely to die in a road accident (1 in 78) and most likely to die of cancer (1 in 5). The point of all this is not to be morbid. Rather, it’s a nice illustration of how bad we are at making choices about what is the most dangerous and what's not.