Recently faced with the misconception that we live in a much safer society than – oh, say Norway, where one lunatic opened fire on trapped campers; it’s well worth remembering how many people in this country suffer gun violence each and every year. Hint: The statistics do not reveal that we are safer by any means. We retain our place on the worldwide list of violent countries. It is utterly astonishing how easy it is to obtain a weapon, and comforting to know that insanity is not discriminated against at all. We are overly fair regarding some disabilities.
RJ ADDS: As an example of just how far over the top our gun culture has gone – the celebration of 20 round clips for handguns aside – Wayne LaPeirre and the NRA are literally up in arms over a law that now requires gun shops in border states to report to the ATF bulk purchases of large magazine loading long rifles over .22 caliber, or assault rifles. This is mainly to keep Mexican cartels from buying thousands of these guns to smuggle across the border where they have already killed over 50,000 of their fellows. The NRA won’t even allow notification of bulks sales of assault weapons. MY GOD MAN… Guns R Us.