It certainly seems that way. 80 people on average are killed everyday in vehicle accidents even with all the safety measures we have now. In Florida I read that drug overdose is the number one cause of death in that state now. More than vehicle accidents and more than by firearms. We are in a drug epidemic with over 25 million people addicted to prescription drugs alone. Now combine that with those who are addicted to illegal drugs and dying from overdoses and its mindboggling yet its rarely mentioned even though people are dying everyday from it.
What I have never quite understood either about those with anti-gun agendas it never seems to matter about the other thousands who are murdered each year by some other method such as bludgeoning, beaten, and stomped to death, strangled, smothered, tortured, stabbed, or poisoned. Those are methods which caused extreme pain and suffering for the victims.
The last stat I remember reading it was around 40-35 percent of homicide victims who were murdered by something other than a firearm. These thousands of victims each year are just as dead as those who were killed by firearms. Around 5 thousand plus are murdered by some other method than a firearm, iirc.
The reason it gives me pause and wondering why so many never mention these victims is those homicides showed the victims suffered a horrible agonizing death before they died.
All homicide victims, no matter the tool the murderer chose to use... are equally important. Yet I see so little ever said about those who are murdered in other horrific ways. It makes me feel, rightly or wrongly, the only reason firearm homicide victims matter to the anti-gun group is they use those cases to promote their own biased agendas against guns.
I just wish the media would be fair to both sides of this subject. The national liberal media never tells about any of the countless heroic stories where so many legally armed citizens have saved many lives including their own, their families, employees, police officers, and people they didn't even know.... who they protected from being cruelly beaten or murdered or stopped a rape from happening. I just don't understand why they never report all of those heroic stories but instead they can be found in local newspapers all across our country. We shouldn't have to hunt for those stories that happen way more times than many think they do. So it isn't like the liberal media isn't aware of them because they constantly monitor local news stories in all states so they purposefully never pick the stories up even though they happen hundreds of times a year and maybe even more.
I have respect for anyone who doesn't want a firearm. If they hate guns then so be it, I respect that too. That is their choice but they do not have a right to tell those who do want to protect themselves with a firearm, they cant do it. We have loads of gun laws on the books right now. Gun laws do not prevent crimes anymore than banning alcohol during prohibition stopped alcohol from being consumed. Or when we banned certain drugs making them illegal. In truth all it did was make alcohol and drug runners into millionaires and billionaires. And more and more we are seeing news articles about gun runners now. They are not selling to law abiding citizens. So the gun runners who easily come in because we don't have secure borders will become the new billionaires if we have more restrictive gun laws. just like the Mexican drug lords.
I would make a guess that every firearm used to do murders/attempted murder/ armed robberies/assaults/rapes/ drive-bys in the gang infested large inner cities....were obtained illegally. Or the gang member paid a straw man to purchase the weapon in order to give it to the gang banger that probably already has a felony record.
Another thing I do not understand about some who view the gun as the evil to end all evil is they seem to ignore the fact that every mass murder that happens here is done in a 'gun free zone.' That isn't a coincidence by any means. I feel instead of advertising an establishment is a gun free zone they should put up big signs saying 'Beware! this is not a gun free zone' even if they didn't really have weapons there.
Criminals are always going to be criminals doing violent acts with a firearm or they will use many other weapons available. The only ones who ever abides by the rules of law are the law abiders and they aren't the glaring problem we have in this nation. Unfortunately we have millions who are violent hell bent on breaking the law and that will not change. Taking guns away for law abiding citizens or restricting them having one only gives the criminals the advantage. They love their victims defenseless like sitting ducks. They like nothing better than tighter gun laws for law abiding citizens.
The fact is we have more legal guns purchased than ever before in our history yet overall violent crime is continuing to decline. The only areas where homicides have peaked again are in the big cities saturated with gang violence. If we could remove all of those (5 or 6) violent cities our homicide rate would fall almost to the bottom worldwide. That is where the problem lies yet it is ignored like it has been for decades and it gets more out of control everyday.
IMO
