Legislature looks at gun deaths across nation, says: 'We need more guns'
The news is so pervasive, it makes you not want to turn on the TV or look online at all: There’s been another shooting. Where? A home in Texas. A grocery store in Boulder. A spa in Atlanta. This place. That place. It can happen anywhere. And it does.
More than 100 people are killed by firearms in this country every day, and another 230 are wounded. People are killed via gun homicides, suicides, and gun accidents. No other wealthy country comes close to meeting these statistics; none of them would tolerate it. The United States of America is the only country in the world populated by more guns than people – approximately 400 million firearms for 331 million people – and which, suffering a death-by-firearm rate of almost 40,000 people per year, shrugs its collective shoulders and continually says, “This is fine.”
This is madness.
No country should find acceptable the slaughter of its citizens as they go about their daily business of living. Men, women, and children should be able to go to work, to school, to places of worship, to the grocery store with confidence that they will not be shot before the end of the day. Shootings should not appear on the news with the regularity of the weather report.
Yet here we are.
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