I mean kids under age 5 there were 20 deaths attributed to guns in 1997. Since 1945, the number of guns has more than doubled but the number of gun injuries has fallen by more than 60 percent. The truth is, there are somewhere between 220 million and 250 million guns in America and there are 2,000 non-fatal gun injuries per year. There are all kinds of interesting statistics out there. Falls down stairs, off ladders, etc., kill some 4,000 people every year.
Nobody seems to care about that.
Nobody says, Eleven people a day are being killed by gravity. We need to educate our children and our country about the dangers of gravity. But the gun thing is highly publicized, sometimes to the point of exaggeration. And it is the latest politically incorrect thing to hammer on. The million moms propose licensing handgun owners, cooling off periods and background checks at gun shows, safety locks and no-nonsense enforcement of gun laws.