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Originally posted by RiNkY:
Interesting reading.

[URL=http://www.nyslimes.com/[/URL]

29,569 people in the US were killed in 2004 by firearms (Including Suicides). Which boils down to about 81 people per day. Don't hear much about those folks all over the TV for weeks on end.
Actually No... It really wasn't interesting reading. It was just the NY Slimes pushing an agenda.

If the NY Slimes was really concerned about people needlessly dying, looking at guns and gun deaths would be lower on their list of priorities.

In this country alone between 90,000 and 190,000 people die needlessly every year because of medical mistakes. These are all types of mistakes. Everything from emergency room screw ups to being prescribed the wrong medication by a doctor not paying attention to their job.

Medical mistakes are one of the biggest killers in this country. We have thousands of people dying every week who should not die. Where is the outrage? What is anyone proposing we do about that dire situation? I don't see the media interested in making a big deal out of the situation either. Where is the NY Slimes regarding the issue?

Every year around 40,000 people die in motor vehicle accidents. Some years even more. What do you propose we do about that situation? Is anyone calling for a ban on motor vehicles?

Let's also not forget, motor vehicles are also sometimes used as instruments of mass murder. In the recent past we have had some Muslims come down with "sudden jihad syndrome" and decided to use their vehicles to kill infidels for Allah. Graham mentioned the incident at the University of North Carolina and last summer some jihadi went nuts with his vehicle in San Francisco.

Almost any nut could use their vehicle as an instrument of mass murder. It does happen and it is certainly not what can be considered a rare occurrence. There are a lot of bus stops and college courtyards in this country. Some nutcase is going to be doing it again.

I think many people also need to be reminded that the largest school mass murder in the US didn't even involve a gun. It happened in Bath, Michigan in 1927. A member of the local school board who was a complete nutcase planted explosives in a school building. Not only did he blow up the school and kill and maim scores of children, he loaded his vehicle with explosives and lots of metal shrapnel. After the school building explosion he arrived at the scene and detonated his explosive and shrapnel packed vehicle killing himself and at least one other person and wounding many more others.

It is almost impossible to protect society from every crazed, resourceful lunatic bent on murder.

The situation is even worse in recent years because as I previously mentioned, the most crazed and deranged people among us now have all kinds of rights afforded to them by our own government.

Government alone is responsible for more complete lunatics lurking freely in today's society and among our midst. Where is the NY Slimes and the media's outrage regarding that fact?

Another thing that needs far more attention....

Almost all of these shooting mass murders are committed by people on some type of psychotropic medication. We have become a society over-reliant on therapy and medication for all types of psychological problems.

Where is the outrage against the psychological industry?

We have a large percentage of children in this country already on psychotropic drugs like Ritalin. Many of them at the initial request of educators who have no business making these recommendations. Many previous mass murder shooters have been linked to the drug Ritalin that is all too often prescribed for too many children in our society today.

Going by the numbers, the future looks extremely bleak as far as school and workplace mass murderers are concerned. We are creating a steady supply of future psychotropic lunatics.

Where is the media outrage on this matter?

Maybe a lot of these media people themselves are hopped up on anti-depressants and other psychotropic drugs.