Since 1968, More Americans Have Died From Gunfire Than All U.S. Wars Combined

[DanTex]

142. You are opposed to them at the federal level.

Not just because of the states rights nonsense, but also "de facto registration" and "privacy" and all of the other NRA talking points that the GOP splashed the airwaves with during the debate. Unless you've changed your mind and now support the Obama bill?

Yes, it is frustrating that so many people die needlessly from gun violence in the US. Just as frustrating as watching all those people lose their lives in pointless wars started under false pretenses. In fact, more so, in a way, since as this OP illustrated, guns here at home take far more American lives than wars.

I guess it's fun to be so callously unconcerned about those "other people" who die from gun violence. Conservatives like yourself tend not to care about things that don't affect them directly -- poverty, discrimination. I get it.

And you are certainly wrong about "the losing side of history". The US is not the entire world, despite what you and Sarah Palin might think, and if you look beyond this country (difficult for you, I know), it is obvious that the rest of the civilized world has figured out how to deal with gun violence. The only country that still has a real "gun debate" is the US. The question is how much longer the right-wing of the US is going to keep policies in place that cost tens of thousands of lives every year. Yes, it might be a while. But us progressives aren't going anywhere.