In 2001, according to the CDC, terrorism killed 2,926 people in America. Since then, the United States has spent $1.138 trillion dollars and thousands more lives prosecuting two bloody and ineffective wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
That same year, again according to the CDC, firearms killed 29,573 people in America — almost exactly ten times as many as killed by terrorists.
What has happened to stop this scourge? Worse than nothing. The Supreme Court struck down gun control statues in Washington, DC in 2008 and Chicago in 2010. And in 2007 — the last year for which I could find CDC statistics — 31,224 people died from firearms in the United States.
Last week, another six people were added to the long list of victims of gun violence in the U.S. And the killer had acquired his gun perfectly legally.
Isn’t it time to get some perspective?
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