Responding to the unconscionable tragedy in Colorado, NYC’s Mayor Bloomberg once again called for gun control, demanding that such weapons should be immediately made illegal.
And although I know little about the subject and consequently can’t comment with expertise, I do know enough to express an opinion about guns in general.
First and foremost, I truly believe that whatever legislation is enacted, it will likely keep guns out of the hands of law-abiding citizens but not the crooks, illegals and psychos. And that says to me, most folks will become far easier targets in general.
However, not really knowing the statistics on guns I looked them up and found on wiki.answers.com that per the Center for Disease Control’s latest figures from 2005, 30,694 firearm deaths occurred across all races, all ages, and both sexes in the United States.
I then got the population count from the Census Bureau 2012, 313,980,558 folks, which means that even though the firearm statistic may be stale it’s still likely the total of deaths is still considerably less than one percent.
So, in view of the preceding numbers I have a suggestion for Mayor Bloomberg and all those politicos who agree with his position on guns.
Whereas most of the population doesn’t have, nor can they afford body-guard protection, yet certain pol’s think most folks should not be able to obtain weapons, and whereas this nation is founded upon a premise that all citizens are equal in every way, then on the day that all the guns are relinquished by the citizenry, all protections for all pol’s should be simultaneously removed as well.
And just in case there are some pol’s out there who believe that they’re entitled to protections and refuse to give them up, they should immediately be removed from office and replaced with someone with enough guts to walk around unarmed and unprotected like everyone else.
That’s it for today folks.
Adios
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