Gun Deaths In America

its not about guns, its about people that dont value human life, look at what happened in paris last night, if some one wants to kill, he will use what ever he can get his hands on, bomb, gun, knive, but in this case he decided to use a commercial truck. are you going to ban truck, no why not, he used it to kill more than 70 people. its time for people to see, killers are going to use what ever they can get. lets put god back in schools, get a handle on illegal drugs, they are a big problem, they are still illegal, why cant they stop the drugs? instead of going after guns, go after the people that are calling out for the senseless killings, let start going after the illegals in our country, lets get the mentally inbalanced people in hospitals. stop trying to take law abiding gun owners weapons

Well that's just precious however the artist forgot to mention there were two common elements; One was a gun true, the other were people. Try this experiment.
Step 1. Place gun on table.
Step 2. Step away and observe the gun.
If that gun kills someone all on it's own, then I will back any anti-gun legislation out there. Otherwise, this is a cute gimmick at best.

I have been saying this for a long time: as a nation we need to stop treating mental health as a joke. We need to be treating mental health as a serious medical condition. That will not eliminate suicide, but it could drastically reduce the number. Too long Mental Health has been seen as weakness. It makes it so that an individual does not seek help for fear of the stigma attached to it. That would be one means to help solve the problem.
A second thing is humanity. Society has devolved to a point where success is not a goal, and entitlement is the norm. This leads to a self centered way of thinking. Other people are obstacles, competition, or otherwise a detriment to the self interest. We have become so self interested that we have lost our humanity. A death, whether it is murder, suicide, self defense, military action, accidental, or other is only a tragedy if it is a celebrity. Otherwise it is just one less obstacle. We need to get back to where we actually care about our fellow man. If we can do that, it will also help to reduce the number of gun deaths.
Gun Control: Controlling who has access to the firearms one has in their home, safe gun handling, judicious marksmanship, and knowledge of laws pertaining to defensive use of force would help with the accidental gun deaths.

The reality of the situation is that in the end none of us are going to get out of life alive. We have a finite amount of time on this plane of existence. There will always be bad people who will always find a way to cause harm. Oklahoma City, Truck full of fertilizer. Atlanta Olympics pipe bomb. September 11th, box cutters and airplanes. Boston Marathon, Pressure cooker, ball bearings, nails, and fireworks. To go a step further Sandy Hook, Gun free zone, attack perpetrated with weapons that were stolen by the perpetrator from a relative, in a state with fairly strict gun control laws already in place. Banning a tool from law abiding citizens does not stop the criminal element from obtaining those tools. If one tool becomes ineffective, cost prohibitive, or not worth the hassle, other implements will be used to inflict harm on others by those intending to do so. When it comes to suicide, unless we intend to ban cars, rope, shoe laces, windows, buildings over one story tall, belts, knives, razor blades, medication, alcohol, bridges, water, and I could go on and on we are not going to ban the implements that have been used by people to commit suicide. It MUST be addressed at the human level. Which realistically is what ALL of the data on gun violence suggests. It is not a tool issue. it is a human issue. Let's deal with that, first. It won't happen though. It is not an easy solution. The easy solution is to ignore the problems and blame the tools.