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I don't get the insensitivity claim, going purely by the numbers.

Losing a kid to faulty wiring in the bathroom is no less tragic than to have him shot. Generally people have no control over either. Nobody wants their kids to play with the electric knife. "I just couldn't envision that happening" I'm sure many a parent told themselves.

The Insensitivity is on the part of the gun fetishizers. They are insensitive to the raw, hard, cold facts about the main causes of child deaths, and waste their time on the lesser causes of death.

thunderlips11 says

Losing a kid to faulty wiring in the bathroom is no less tragic than to have him shot

Thats an accident. Maybe you need an awakening. You cannot tell the difference between MDK and an accident?

121212 says

thunderlips11 says

Losing a kid to faulty wiring in the bathroom is no less tragic than to have him shot

Thats an accident. Maybe you need an awakening. You cannot tell the difference between MDK and an accident?

Let's see:

If you get shot in the face, you're dead

If you get electrocuted in the shower, you're dead.

If you drown in a pool, you're also dead.

If you drink too much Acetone, you're dead.

If you eat marbles too big for your throat, you're dead.

The shot in the face might be least painful of the five, likely being instant.

thunderlips11 says

Let's see:

If you get shot in the face, you're dead
If you get electrocuted in the shower, you're dead.
If you drown in a pool, you're also dead.

If you eat marbles too big for your throat, you're dead.

The shot in the face might be least painful of the four, likely being instant.

Your right, how did I not see it your way.

Perhaps you "also" are missing your soul, if you cannot honestly tell the difference between felony homicide and accident death.

121212 says

Perhaps you "also" are missing your soul, if you cannot honestly tell the difference between felony homicide and accident death.

And you fail to realize that losing a child in a car accident is no worse than losing one to a homicide.

Trust me, both sets of parents are equally upset, and both children are equally dead.

"Oh, my kid is deader than yours, he was shot instead of thrown out the windshield".

Thunderfool!

Shut the fuck up! and stop comparing fucking accidents that lead to deaths to MASS MDK!

Your heinous!

Since anything can potentially cause death, everything should be legal to own. Anything from a butter knife to Tomahawk missile launchers. You should be able to buy grenades, land mines, vials of anthrax, mercury laden toothpaste or unlabeled asbestos filled jackets from a store. There should also be zero government regulation for food and products safety. Furthermore, zoning laws should be abolished completely. Should you neighbors decide to sell their houses to a company wanting to build a coal plant right next to your house, they should have that right. If you are afraid of inanimate objects, you need your overly-paranoid head examined.

That chart should updated to include all firearm deaths. You shouldn't really compare only firearm homicides to most other things on that chart. That's comparing the major drivers of vehicle deaths (accidents) to a minority contributor to gun deaths (homicides.) I suppose the intent isn't really to inform, though.

Total firearm deaths are north of thirty thousand per year, which puts them on par with most other items on that chart. Firearm deaths would rank above drugs, which are illegal, and only a little below automobiles, which require licenses to operate. Laws get passed to hamper tobacco use all the time.

Perhaps guns should be regulated like cars? We could require prospective owners to pass tests and get licensed. Perhaps a psych test and a gun safety exam. That seems no more difficult than getting a driver's license.