Aplus you must live a sheltered excistance If you have never never been made to feel unsafe by others in your own country...I hope you never ever find yourself in a position of being physicailly threaten by another American....
This is old but the numbers speak volumes....and to think this is just only hand guns.....
Americans are becoming desensitized to violence and I fear this colors all debate about handguns. Every day we read horror stories of sleeping children killed by random bullet flying through walls or other innocents gunned down while standing on street corners, yet we do little more than shake our heads and mutter "how awful." This desensitization is not particularly surprising. By age eighteen, the average American child will have watched more than 200,000 violent acts on television, 40,000 of them murders.[5] The violence saturation process starts early with Looney Tune cartoons where Elmer Fudd and Bugs Bunny take turns blowing each other’s head off with a shotgun. I feel like a liar telling my five-year-old that it is all just pretend, knowing that while she is watching the cartoon there is a good chance someone [Page 602] is being murdered with a handgun.[6] Trying to hide the truth about gun violence from children seems futile anyway, a more and more children experience it first hand in school and on the streets.[7]
Statistics regarding handgun violence in America are so staggering that they tend to numb the mind. In trying to think of a way to convey the actual horror of 22,000 Americans killed by handguns each year,[8]
Twenty-two thousand people killed each year. That is more people than live in most counties in Arkansas. It is twenty-one thousand and nine-hundred more casualties than the United States lost in combat in the Persian Gulf war. With 22,000 bullets, we could follow Shakespeare’s advice and kill all the lawyers in the state seven times over, with plenty of ammunition left over for the expert witnesses. Twenty two thousand people is more people than most of us will know in a lifetime.
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