Guns: Democrats vow to end the American Plague [View all]

[Omaha Steve]

http://iowadailydemocrat.com/news/2015/10/guns-democrats-vow-to-end-the-american-plague/

By Rick Smith10/08/15

Des Moines, Iowa – If there was a virus killing 90 Americans a day, we would rally all our health resources to find a cure. If that same virus was injuring an additional 270 Americans a day, we would search for a solution. If that virus was cutting down more than 80 of our preschoolers per year, we would demand our political leaders act.

Remember the scare over Ebola? Americans reacted with fear when the first person died in the United States. There was no cure but that didn’t prevent our health care leaders from protecting all our citizens by regulating contact with infected patients. All our medical facilities immediately implemented safety measures to contain the virus. Ebola, a deadly virus, was contained in America and it has been nearly eliminated in the world because we chose to find a solution.

We currently have a virus that is killing Americans at the rates described above. Americans are walking around with an Ebola-like killer in their pocket or stuffed in their belt. It’s more deadly than Ebola (Ebola requires contact with bodily fluids in order to be infected). This deadly virus is spread as easily as pointing it and pulling the trigger. This virus…this plague…this disease is a gun.

In the case of Ebola we quarantined people with a deadly disease capable of killing others. In the case of guns we can’t even debate modest proposals to restrict the distribution of guns to criminals, abusers and the mentally incompetent. We can’t seem to set the most basic safeguards on the power of weapons, the capacity of ammunition clips or gun free zones.

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Guns available to nearly everyone in U.S. Ebola contained and eliminated in U.S. Both killers, but we refuse to find the cure for one of these. Gun photo credit: Glasgow, Licensed for re-use by CC 2.0. Ebola image credit: Centers for Disease Control, Public Domain.