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14. The stakes are high, it's true

But 30,000 bullet-riddled corpses per year and the highest per capita gun death rate of any developed nation ought to be a strong motivator to do something even if it is politically risky. If politicians never took risks, we would still be in the Dark Ages without Social Security, without Medicare, without the 8 hour work day, without child labor laws, without the minimum wage, etc., all of which were fought against tooth and nail. If gun owners would wake up and realize that they are on the wrong side of history and stand alone in a world that has uniformly recognized the threat of guns and taken strong measures to regulate them, it would certainly make life easier for all of us. But, even if they don't, we can no more allow ourselves to be deterred by their tragically backwards thinking than we could allow ourselves to proceed as a nation that tolerated slavery.