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No I don`t and neither do the people who have been involved in massacres whether it be a church, school, concert, mall, etc. It`s terrorism, not death by natural causes. People don`t seem to mind as long as the shooter is a native born white guy.
All you smartasses saying ban fatty foods or heart attacks are making an incredibly terrible comparison to the "ban guns" debate. Heart attacks are not violent crimes against unsuspecting people going about their day. The only way it would be a fair comparison is if guns didn't kill or injure a single person other than the person using it. To compound this, gun deaths are typically either "accidental" or a violent death/murder.
I don't recall anyone ever accidentally eating themselves to death or murdering another person by themselves having a heart attack. I guess it's possible to eat your self to death on accident if a person is really that uneducated but I mean if people that dumb really exist in this world, I can't say letting them own guns is a good idea. And yet they do.
Nothing I can do about it so no, not worried. Less than 1/10th of 1%
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in the US, with an average of 614,348 people dying of it annually. With 323 million people in the US, that equates to only 0.0019% of the population. So by your **** poor logic, it must be no big deal at all? Over a million people die of it every year but **** em because we can convert it into a percentage, making it seem like a microscopic number.
The only way it would be a fair comparison is if guns didn't kill or injure a single person other than the person using it. To compound this, gun deaths are typically either "accidental" or a violent death/murder.
Are you in favor of disarming the police, the Secret Service, the DEA, ATF, FBI, CIA, FDA, USDA, ICE, Homeland Security, and all other government employees, in addition to abolishing the military?
The difference being that with heart disease, unless it is congenital, you have full control over it. With a gunman, not so much.
Thread fail.
4 of my friends were killed in 1 felled swoop at the hands of a drunk driver the night after highschool graduation coming home from a concert.
They had 0 control over a drunk missing a turn and hitting them at over 80mph...
Physics, booze, and 1 drunk won that night.
I didnt, and dont, hold Ford accountable with the logic of nobody needs an Excursion capable of high speed.
I didn't hold VW accountable for making the GTI (a compact hatchback) incapable of protecting the passengers...
Nor do I hold contempt for Budweiser or hold them accountable.
That drunk on the other hand...
With a gunman, if you yourself are armed you have a chance to defend yourself.
Astonishing the attitude of this country has gone from land of the free home of brave, to land of the feeble, home of the nanny state advocates...
Somehow, this is not a comfort. I'm pretty sure I'd rather go out like a mafiosa where the lights go out all at once instead of lingering on in a hospital with chest pain and difficulty breathing for months.
Neither the means of our death nor the day of it is under our control.
Here's guy who did everything right for his health but . . . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Prefontaine
Death by burger, has got to be infinitely more desirable than death by bullet
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