The Things That Kill More People Than Firearms

I will keep this short. Our Presidential Officeholder is blathering on about Gun Control, and Gov. Mario Cuomo is planning to order cops to "confiscate" legally owned firearms. That this violates the US Constitution and rulings by the Supreme Court doesn't seem to matter to either of them. Even if it means they could be facing prison for giving those orders. And they do. Any person or officer of the law that follows an illegal order also faces prison. Cops don't survive long in prison. Most are not suicidal. Gov. Cuomo is a fool. His statement is a violation of the constitution and is both Treason and Sedition, under the existing laws of this nation. I sincerely hope they charge him. It would be hilarious if the ACLU and the NRA both backed the case and prosecuted him to the full extent of the law. Putting the Gov. of New York into prison is suitable justice for not having competent assistants capable of shutting him up before Senility boots him out of office as a felon.

A firearm is a tool. Its job is to contain and direct a projectile such that it only fires when properly triggered, very intentionally. It is limited by its handler and where the operator POINTS and TRIGGERS the firearm. It is unable, if properly designed, to fire without a person holding it. Every discharge of a firearm is already the legal responsibility of whomever is holding it. It is illegal to sell a firearm to a crazy person or to possess a firearm if you are crazy or under age without special certifications (such as a father teaching his sons to hunt and all are licensed).

Basic Police or citizen licensed concealed carry firearm.

Many people use firearms perfectly legally. Many countries have legal or even mandatory concealled carry. Switzerland, the oldest direct democracy country, requires mandatory daily carry. They have the lowest rate of firearms crime in the world. They also have a very limited percentage of poor people, Africans, and drug addicts to cause those incidents in the first place. The solution of gun crime is apparently require everyone to be Rich and White. As that is not an option in the USA, which is highly diverse, often poor, and frequently addicted to substances, we have a fair bit of gun crime. However, and this is important, there are far more frequent killers of our society than assault weapons.

As you can see, the numbers aren't favorable or even effective to attack gun owners for any serious reduction of deaths in this country. According to the FBI, 1/3 of all gun deaths are people killed by their own guns, usually while cleaning them, usually while drunk. The other 2/3 are usually related to the drug trade with one dealer killing another. Every time you hear about an armed home invasion? That "victim" was almost always a drug dealer. You don't get home invaded unless you have something worth stealing that you're unlikely to call the Police about the loss of, which is usually drugs or drug money. This means that if you aren't a drug dealer, and don't clean your gun while drunk, you probably have a very low chance of ever getting shot. Gun crime mostly impacts criminals, police, and idiots. So talking about banning guns is really useless. We have better things to do than get cops killed by paranoid collectors wearing tinfoil hats or duck hunters with the family shotgun. They have better things to do too. Like arrest drug dealers illegally possessing firearms.

Typical Shotgun to hunt Ducks and Geese and the Thanksgiving Turkey.

In the real world you are threatened by car drivers, medical malpractice, and food poisoning. According to the Center For Disease Control, 1809 people died from Food Poisoning in the USA in 2011. The NY Times claims 3500, but they offer no facts to back their claims so I'm ignoring that.
Hammers kill half again more people than assault weapons. Are they going to ban hammers? How will we build houses or hang a picture on the wall? Do we need psychological evaluations and waiting periods for hammers? Should existing hammers be confiscated?

How about kitchen knives? Sure, everyone has one or two, but they kill twice as many people as assault weapons. Do we need background checks to buy one? Should we demonize known owners of kitchen knives? Is Mario Batale a murderer waiting to happen because he owns kitchen knives? Is being a Great Chef really just a cover for a more insidious plot?

Twice as Deadly as an Assault Rifle.

Food poisoning is 7-10 times more deadly than assault weapons. According to the CDC 1809 people die from that yearly. Is someone who leaves the food out an hour too long before putting it into the fridge a murderer? Are we that stupid a society to point finger in the wrong places?

I'll also point out that car crashes killed 32,000 people that year, which includes the 12,000 deaths from drunk drivers. How many people were texting when they killed someone? 3000 killed by texting drivers per year. So you're 10 times more likely to be killed by a texting driver than you are an assault rifle. Why aren't we banning texting and cellphones? It isn't enough to make it illegal to use in a car. That's clearly not working when we have ten times the slaughter of assault rifles. Its a High Capacity Assault Phone. Murder Messages kill. 

Is this GPS distracting you?

Medical Malpractice is the all-time leader, of course, with 195,000 deaths a year. Few people want to hold doctors accountable, and those who try are rebuffed by the AMA and the very well paid Malpractice Insurance lawyers, who keep their client doctors "practicing" Medicine. Its not called Perfected Medicine because they're still trying to get it right. Yes, we need doctors, but why aren't they held responsible for their actions? Oba-Medicare is NOT going to fix this problem. It just going to force us to pay even more for it. But at least we won't be threatened by those nasty firearms!