Ban guns? I have ONE word to answer that notion... HALABJA

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35. its a public health issue

The CDC estimates each gunshot fatality to cost approximately $30,000, while nonfatal injuries can add up to $300,000 in medical costs alone. A 2008 survey by the Public Services Research Institute estimates that the medical, judicial, and emergency services involved in firearm injuries and fatalies costs the federal, state and local government about $4.7 annually. If pain management costs, the loss of a productive member of the work force and decreased quality of life costs are added to the bill, firearm violence expenses can approach $100 billion annually, unfairly burdening taxpayers.

Guns hurt people, society and the economy in many ways, yet public health campaigns do not emphasize gun violence as a public health issue. This mentality has to change – we as Americans need to realize that in fighting for gun control we are also fighting for our right to health, and our right to life.

In other words, though the Second Amendment conserves our basic right of self protection, advocates also need to understand that fighting for this right is also a fight against others’ rights to a healthy life, free from the terror created by irresponsible gun owners.

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/2011/01/19/gun-control-is-a-public-health-issue/