[ranjeetbhatia]

Well then what is the magic number when this becomes significant enough to do something about it? Lets say even 1/100 of people who die from tobacco i.e 5k per year or 13 per day in mass shooting. Who wants to wait till then. My point is that dying from tobacco use and mass shootings are not the same. So lets not even compare them. Mass shootings is more of a symptom of something really wrong with the society. It is effin inverted where universal healthcare is debated and challenged all the way to the supreme courts but universal access to assault rifles and guns has bipartisan support.

[jwhitlark]

Universal healthcare is debated because it has to be paid for by other parties. No one is suggesting the govt. should be buying people guns. One is a positive right and the other a negative right, as they used to say.