I write this as a result of a tweet that I think is worth sharing:
For context, here are the total deaths for America’s three bloodiest wars, according to this wikipedia article
Civil War (where we fought ourselves 750,000
World War II 405,399
World War I 116,516
The total of those three wars: 1,271,915, or only marginally more than our domestic gun deaths in the last 36 years.
Or to put it another way, the War in Vietnam ripped this country apart as no other conflict since the Civil War. It’s total deaths were 58,209.
That means our total domestic guns deaths in the last 36 years were 12.88 Vietnams, or to put it another way, on average our domestic gun deaths each year are 1/3 of the deaths in Vietnam.
As Pete Seeger wrote and sang, When will we ever learn?
Peace?