Dear Brady Campaign,

You can suck my high-powered cock.

For those of you unaware, the Brady Campaign is an organization devoted to enacting strict firearm regulation in America. And for that, they, and all the people who think like them, are douchebags. Why? Well first, let's look at their website.

They cite as a fact that each day in the US, 80 people die from firearms. That makes the annual death count about 30,000 (I'm rounding up for their sake). Now let me put that bullshit statistic into perspective for you. They certainly are clever in their ambiguity. See, they didn't specify how the deaths occurred. This allows them to group firearm deaths resulting from assault, suicides, self-defense, and legal police action all together, letting you get the idea that 80 people are helplessly murdered each day from guns, when actually that's not really the case at all.

Well since they don't want to do it, allow me to break that statistic of 30,000 down a bit myself. According to suicide.org, in 2005, over half of the 32,439 suicides in the US (more than the total number of firearm deaths, mind you) resulted from self-inflicted gunshots (and that percentage has remained consistent for several years). That's over 16,000 firearm deaths from suicide. What's that mean? It means that over half the firearm deaths in the United States are suicides. Now, I take two things from that. First, I believe if a person wants to kill themselves, they'll do it with or without a gun (a gun is just damn efficient), and second, more important to the topic, is that this in no way speaks to gun violence in America. So that leaves about 14,000 firearm deaths per year from things other than suicide. These statistics show that since 1976, homicides from gun use annually have been around 11,000. Not 30,000. 11,000. It's unclear whether or not self-defense uses or police action are included, but either way, that means that about 30 people are actually killed by another person each day in the US by the use of a firearm. Maybe you should also consider that guns are used (shown to a potential attacker, fired into the air or at an attacker, etc...) somewhere between 800,000 and 2.5 million times in self-defense each year. And, because I'm too lazy to look up the data, I can only speculate as to how many of those 30 people per day killed from firearms had their own firearms to use in defense.



So ignoring everything I just pointed out about the bullshit statistics used by the Braidy Campaign, let's look at this, the leading causes of death in the US per year -

Heart disease: 631,636 (1,730/day)

Cancer: 559,888 (1,533/day)

(Right here they leave out avoidable hospital mistakes at around 300,000)

Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119 (375/day)

Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583 (341/day)

Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599 (333/day)

Diabetes: 72,449 (198/day)

Alzheimer's disease: 72,432 (198/day)

Influenza and Pneumonia: 56,326 (154/day)

Nephritis, nephrotic syndrome, and nephrosis: 45,344 (124/day)

Septicemia: 34,234 (93/day)

>> General gun deaths would be somewhere down here... Under fucking Septicemia!<<

>>Gun deaths resulting from anything other than suicide would be about 16,000 deaths lower... probably under the total number of people who die each year from boredom while looking at my site. <<



 

Oh, and then there's also this -




So I guess the point of all this is that you need to quit fucking crying about firearms and start worrying about the things that are actually responsible for killing people - disease, poor health, and people slipping and falling or choking to death instead of paying attention to what they're doing, they're too busy worrying about whether or not someone is going to suddenly kill them with a gun.

As for me, I can focus on walking and chewing because if some enthusiastic, young assailant mistook me for a victim, I would quickly send him (or her) along to more opportune prospects.