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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What was the OP's point?[/quote]

What's my point?  Exactly what I wrote in the original post.  I am starting this thread to people can see just one small part of the high price our society is paying to allow easy access to guns.  In economic terms, the United States is paying $229 billion per year to deal with the costs of gun related deaths and injuries. http://www.businessinsider.com/gun-violence-costs-america-more-than-229-billion-every-year-2015-4  That's over $1800 per taxpayer every year to subsidize people who get their jollies from owning guns.  But beyond the economic cost, there's also the human cost in wholly innocent lives destroyed by guns.  That's the societal cost I'm highlighting with this thread.

As I made clear in the opening post, I'm realistic enough to acknowledge that eliminating all guns in the United States is not an option.  I'm not even advocating an effort to stop the sale of new guns.  I'm simply saying that our society needs to make some changes to ensure guns are distributed, stored, and used more safely. Stop the senseless deaths of innocents.

To be blunt, I consider it the responsibility of gun owners to develop and implement measures to reduce these costs and prevent needless gun deaths.  It's a problem they are creating, so should take responsibility for solving it.  However, gun owners and the gun industry have failed to control themselves.  If gun owners irresponsibly will not advocate for gun safety regulations, then the burden falls on the rest of us.

I'm tired of everyone turning away from these innocent deaths, and forgetting the high cost our society pays to subsidize guns.  No more subsidy for gun owners.  Open your eyes to the true costs of your hobby.[/quote]

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