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"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."

Sorry, but this tactic is nonsensical.

Ignoring the homicide versus natural death, intentional versus accidental schism (as if theft doesn't matter if you can point to accidental loss), we do talk about heart disease, cancer, and traffic accidents. Constantly.

Every year cars introduce more and more controls to try to improve safety on a device that offers incredible utility and value to society. There are hundreds of thousands of officers out there trying to ensure roadway safety. There are ads and new legislation constantly.

We legislate foods constantly, have billions spent to combat the other menaces. Chemicals and our environment have incredible and onerous controls to prevent cancer and other human ailments.

Why are we talking about guns? Geez, if we talked about it 1/100th as much as the other issues, maybe something would get done.