Just in case you missed it, I will quote two paragraphs from columnist Nicolas Kristof in today’s New York Times.
"More Americans die in gun homicides and suicides every six months than have died in the last 25 years in every terrorist attack and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq combined. "
"More Americans have died from guns in the United States since 1968 than on battlefields of all the wars in American history."
Oh, I almost forgot. Guns don’t kill people, people kill people--at least according to the N.R.A.
And here is one more item from Kristof. OSHA has seven pages of regulations concerning ladders, which are involved in 300 deaths in the U.S. each year. It has no regulations on guns, which kill more than 33,000 people each year.
Every politician is afraid to take on the N.R.A. Even Trump, who supposedly speaks without fear of the consequences.
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