Guns = Death

What is the primary function of a gun?  If you answered something other than kill, you are delusional. Guns may perform other functions, such as – fill in as a paperweight, a prop in a piece of art, used to fire a bullet to hit a target, etc, but the intended function is to kill, that simple.

Guns as they relate to America form a dichotomy. Without guns we could not have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, yet today guns are literally killing us, please see chart below.  

America has a problem and it is more than just guns. Our country is kind of like Imelda Marcos.  Instead of shoes, we have a gun obsession, arguably fueled by the gun lobby.  As such, America has 3x as many guns per 100 people than the median and 10x the number of homicides-by-gun per 100,000 people than the median resulting in approximately 4 homicides-by-gun per 100,000 guns or approximately 3x the median. We have more and kill more! Just like Imelda, unfortunately some of us must have some form of psychosis to ignore the facts.

In 2015 slightly more than 10 million guns were manufactured and distributed in the US.  If the ratios I just provided remained constant then there would have been 360 more homicides-by-gun in 2016, yet per CDC data, the total increase in deaths by firearm was 2406.  Assuming the ratio of 2 suicides-per-gun for every homicide-by-gun holds true then there was an increase of approximately 900 homicides-by-gun over the prior year, an acceleration in deaths.

Some of you may be jumping out of your seat yelling that is why we need guns for self-defense. First, less than 300 deaths by firearm were attributed to self-defense last year; translation, guns used for self-defense is immaterial.  More importantly, that thinking is in-line with those who believe that only more government policies can solve poverty.  Think of it this way, the more right you go, the more left you become.

Since some people may have a hard time wrapping their mind around these facts, please let me state the obvious, less guns will mean less deaths.