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

[Demo_Chris]

213. I think that's a different question...

We live in a country with 325 MILLION people, about 75 Million of them children. Those are huge numbers. That's enough people that you would think damn near any cause of death you could define would be greater than this.

As for your question, the answer depends on your relationship to the victim. To the family of a murdered child, and no doubt to many gun control aficionados here, the answer is that one death is too many. But seen another way, losing one child per million children -- literally -- hardly seems enough to warrant calls for extreme action. With numbers that small the level of the response says more about gun control fanatics than it does about the scope of the problem. If saving children were the actual motivation you would have more effect and save more lives banning pools and bathtubs and five-gallon buckets.

But please, when you do switch causes to banning bathtubs and buckets, please do not post every death here on the forums. People might make the mistake of believing the problem is far larger than it is.