Statistical Odds of being killed, less than 0.0001%

CNN.com recently had an article that finally drew down on the real threat of gun violence; handguns. Rifles account for less than 4% of all gun deaths yet Congress probably has spent over 70% of their “gun” discussions talking about them. That’s right, the handgun is used far more commonly and effectively than the rifle in a murder – you know murder, a felony. CNN points to the 2011 FBI statistics to prove this, what CNN doesn't harp on are the sheer number.

In 2011 there 6,220 people killed by handguns. Consider this, that means your odds in the United States of being killed by a handgun are less than 0.0001%. More people were killed by alcohol, prescription drugs, vehicles and so on than were killed by guns. But you wouldn't know that from the media who makes gun violence seem like some prevalent thing in the US society. The real and true problem in America is violence as a whole, whether it is beating a spouse, a child, a guy on the street, throwing someone into a subway train, punching someone on a bus, accountability is the problem in the United States. For far too long America has allowed criminals to get off nearly free for their actions.

If we simply started strictly enforcing our current laws we would see a dramatic drop in crime. If we stopped focusing on “statistical” rationale for who we can and cannot arrest. If we stopped listening to racist organizations like the NAACP that force policing officials to turn a blind eye to crime for the sake of protecting the “minority” statistics; things would get better. It is unaccountable individuals that cause violence, not the average American. Going after and limiting the rights of law-abiding citizens does nothing to protect you or your family, nothing to make streets nor schools safe, nothing to protect society.

Congress needs to stop wasting our time with nonsense, emotion based, rationale that avoids at all costs the true problems in America. And you  might ask why these officials don’t see the problems and that answer can be summed up in one word – election. You don’t get elected telling dependents that they need to become responsible.