The average cost of treating a child wounded by gunfire could provide a student with a year of college education. The cost of firearm injuries treated at major trauma centers are substantial and the increasing volume of unreimbursed care for such injuries has become an important factor in the decision of many hospitals to end their participation in organized trauma systems. Considerable savings to society would accrue from an effort that decreased firearm injuries, even if the same level of violence persisted using other weapons. Hundreds of thousands of injuries, limiting the freedoms of those shot, and tens of thousands of deaths, completely halting those freedoms. In the balance of freedoms, the gun-control side is winning.
Guns cost our society more freedom than they are worth.
I, personally, will not limit your rights. If I were made supreme ruler and law-maker of the USA tomorrow, I would not pass whatever gun laws I pleased, but instead, try to convince people, as I am doing now, that limiting the ability to own guns is the choice people should make. If enough people believed me, then such laws would be passed. That can only be done by a democratic process, when people are willing to do it. Rights come from one of two places.