Why are we even discussing guns? They account for less than 0.5% of deaths (excluding suicides) in the USA. You are two and a half times more likely to fall to your death accidentally than be killed by a gun. You are three and a half times more likely to die in a car crash.

Heart disease kills 28 innocent people in the USA every 25 minutes! Cancer kills another 28 innocent people in that time! More innocent people die from car crashes every minute than die from guns. Does a mad gunman kill 28 people every 25 minutes? I haven't even heard of any more such shooting this week, nevermind every 25 minutes since the Sandy Hook incident.

Guns don't even make the top 15 list* (below)! And #15 ranks in at 2.8% the amount of deaths as #1. In the interest of tackling problems that would actually make a meaningful difference, looking at causes at that small percentage of the problem is really a waste of time.

If any remember not too long ago, the 'year of the shark', it is much like how that 'epidemic' of shark attacks was suddenly so pressing in our consciousness. Not because you had any chance at all of dying of shark attacks, but simply because the media had chosen to spotlight the infinitesimally small amount of deaths caused by sharks. Just as you have no chance to die of sharks, you have no chance to die from guns. Just because the media purposely chooses to fill their pages with mostly gun crime doesn't mean that what they choose to report actually reflects the ratios that exist in reality. The tyrants have an agenda to disarm the people so that they can more easily enslave them. Just as the tyrants of Russia took control of the media in order to sway peoples opinions to suit their agenda, the tyrants of our countries have long ago done so as well.

In the USA, approximately 6,755 people die - every day. Twenty eight people dying is a sad thing, but irrelevant to the 6,755 people that die every day! The national media focuses on this negligible number of deaths because it suits the agenda of the parasitic ruling class. If they didn't choose to focus on it (for weeks and weeks even), then it would just be another 0.4145% of the deaths that occurred in a day.

Guns are our only defense against the next Trotsky, Stalin, Lennin or Mao once again purging a 100 million of their own people. Let's ban cars instead of guns. It would prevent more deaths, and cars are a lot less important to our freedom than guns. I would rather walk or bike to work than be thrown in the next gulag or purged because we allowed the tyrants to disarm their people.

Note that it is right to exclude suicides because: a) really, those people have the right to die, b) only half of suicides are by guns, thus you would only cut suicide by 50%, and c) you wouldn't even cut it by 50% as probably most of those people would use another way to kill themselves just like the other 50% of people who commit suicide do. Regardless, even if you don't exclude suicide then you are still more likely to die from falling or an auto accident than by a gun.

Proof of the pure BS that the media is stirring up against guns:

From the CDC's: National Vital Statistics Report, Volume 60, Number 4 (January 2012)

Numbers for 2010 (latest tabulated in the 2012 report):

Total deaths in 2010: 2,465,932

595,444	Heart Disease

573,855	Cancer

137,789	Chronic lower respiratory disease

129,180	Cerebrovascular disease

118,043	Accidents [A]

83,308	Alzheimer's

68,905	Diabetes mellitus

50,472	Influenza and pneumonia

37,793	Suicide [S]

37,843	Septicemia

31,802	Chronic liver disease and cirrhosis

26,577	Essential hypertension and hypertensive renal disease

21,963	Parkinson's disease

17,001	Pneumonitis due to solids and liquids

... ( ^ top 15 )

16,065	Assault (homicide) [M]

472,889	All other causes

[A]:

118,043	Accidents (total)

-> 37,661	Transport accidents

---> 35,080	Motor vehicle accidents

-> 25,903	Accidental Falls

-> 600	Accidental discharge of firearms

-> ...

[S]:

37,793	Suicide (total)

-> 19,308	Suicide by discharge of firearms

-> 18,485	Suicide by other means.

[M]:

16,065	Assault (homicide)

-> 11,015	Assault (homicide) by discharge of firearms

-> 5,050	Assault (homicide) by other means.