Tag: gun violence

The Power of the NRA and Gun Manufacturers

Just last week Fareed Zakaria pointed out on his program, GPS, that 150,000 people have been killed in homicides since September 11, 2001 and 74 people have been killed by terrorists since that date. Few seem to be concerned about the killing by guns in America even though those events happen on a daily basis.

American attitude is that this is a cheap price to pay for our right to own a gun. No other industrialized country in the world has the high rate of deaths from gun violence that is experienced here. Are there more people that have mental disease in the United States compared to other countries? That is not likely.

We have accepted the NRA and gun manufacturers arguments that we are safer with more guns. Can you imagine how many more people would have been killed in a dark movie theater in Aurora, Colorado if someone else has started shooting to defend themselves?

Sandy Hook Anniversary

This is the one year anniversary of the now well documented shooting at Sandy Hook, Connecticut.

Since the Sandy Hook tragedy (20 children and six adults killed by a deranged young man) there have been at least 19 similar events.  In addition gun violence in big cities continues.  All this in what many people say is the greatest nation in the world.  Apparently the access to guns and the “right” to have a gun takes priority to making the United States the safest nation in the world.