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[billh58]

4. Thank you for arguing the

gun lobby's point-of-view on this issue, but the fact remains that gun deaths will soon out pace automobile accident deaths, regardless of which study you look at. The main reason is because of this statement from VPC's (and other astute observers') research:

"Firearms are the only consumer product in America not regulated by the federal government for health and safety. Meanwhile, motor vehicle deaths are on a steady decline, thanks to decades of public health-based injury prevention strategies and proven consumer product safety regulation standards designed to reduce death and injury.

Gun violence is a public health crisis with an unacceptable toll on human life,” states VPC Legislative Director Kristen Rand. “To reduce gun death and injury, firearms must be regulated for health and safety just as we regulate motor vehicles and all other consumer products.”

“We didn’t put up with a free-for-all on our highways, and it’s time to end the gun violence free-for-all in our schools and neighborhoods,” states Sue Hornik, executive director of States United to Prevent Gun Violence."

You can argue "statistics" and twist them anyway you like, and that is the Second Amendment Absolutists' preferred method of defending the needless deaths and injuries brought about by lax gun control regulation in this country, but you can't argue away the fact that the USA leads the civilized world in preventable gun-related violence and deaths.