That Mark Twain had a way with words, didn't he? (My favorite of his, though, remains, "In the first place, God created idiots. That was for practice. Then he created school boards." Yep. I had that one on my classroom bulletin board, there for one and all to see, for years and years and years.)
How is one to make a determination of the extent of gun violence in this country with so many different lies, er, statistics about fire-arm related deaths? I noted this in two op-ed pieces running side by side in this AM's newspaper. One claimed "31,000" and the other "12,664." That's a pretty big variance, isn't it? Are these numbers reflective of murders? Is only one of them the number of murders with guns? Does that mean the majority were "accidents?"
Curious, I checked several online sources, fairly reputable I think. Yep, I found as many as more than 31,000 and as few as 11,000--and quite a few in-between.
And, could someone at least be honest about what are being called "assault weapons" and "automatic weapons?" Most aren't, actually showing an ignorance of what these weapons really are.
Notice, too, I haven't yet begun to sound off on the assault on Constitutional rights. And, no, I don't own a single gun and haven't fired one in maybe 45 years or so.
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