"There are more women dying, there are more men dying, and there are more children dying."

[The Magistrate]

47. Noted In The Comment You Are Replying To, Sir

You are talking about items with other uses, in dilute concentration, and while they can be readily purchased, they are labeled with warnings, and public education campaigns make just about everyone aware of the dangers, and of first aid remedies, and the need to contact professionals quickly. Highly poisonous chemicals in serious concentration are a good deal less readily available, in quickly lethal concentrations; insecticides only licensed practitioners may acquire and employ, for instance.

It is noted you did not engage what would be another prong of a serious public health approach, namely rational assessment of the risks inherent to possession of a fire-arm, balanced against the safety from crime many purchasers imagine they will acquire by owning a fire-arm, and examination of the paranoid and aggressive ideation many purchasers and owners of fire-arms display.

While you personally may not be in the 'government will come for my guns' camp, it is abundantly clear the NRA leadership, and many of its active members, do take this as a serious factor determining their assessment of public policy on the matter. We are in a political environment where a plurality of self-identified conservatives believe they will have to rise up in armed rebellion against the U.S. government to 'defend liberty'....