The point is that if our hypothetical 80,000 neo-Nazis descended on Washington, demanding new laws to prevent those of the Jewish faith from owning businesses or holding controlling interest in banks, one might expect the nation's commentators to spend some time lamenting the fact that 80,000 Americans are so churlish and deluded as to imagine they could thus demand a suspension of the First Amendment freedom of religion, no matter what their numbers. I made up the number immediately above out of thin air. I have no idea how many American banks have members of the Jewish faith on their boards, nor do I care, nor should any American who respects the freedom of religion. The real statistic for children under 14 killed by gun accidents is 1.7 per day, according to the Centers for Disease Control.
Firearm accidents kill fewer small children each year than drown in mop buckets.
Accidental firearm death numbers are in the same ballpark as the number of kids now killed or maimed by automobile airbags mandated by the government. The Bell Campaign website applauds the confiscation of every handgun in Great Britain, and of every self-loading rifle and shotgun in Australia. Doing business without NICS would almost certainly attract the wrath of federal agents, Korwin explains. Though the intent was to protect you, and that language was specifically placed there during drafting for this very reason, I have little doubt that the feds would be, shall we say, displeased at such a challenge to their power. Vin Suprynowicz is the assistant editorial page editor of the Las Vegas Review-Journal.