Today Nicholas
Kristof says his piece about guns and gun control in the Sunday New York Times.
Read it here.
He mentions
that OSHA publishes five pages of federal safety regulations about ladders….about
300 people die each year in ladder-related accidents.
About 30,000
Americans die of gunshot wounds every year.
Kristof mentions
an anonymous Facebook follower who said "It is more
difficult to adopt a pet than it is to buy a gun.”
Kristof makes a realistic
point: we're not going to abolish guns entirely—but if we require background checks
on every gun buyer, and sharply limit multiple gun purchases, and make automatic
weapons and high-capacity magazines illegal, then we can make a big dent in the
number of people who are shot and killed every hour of every day.
And maybe we could make
sure it's a long, long time before another crazy kills 20 first graders in their
schoolrooms.
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