Two decades and more than a half million lives later, and despite a complete lack of reliable evidence that the unfettered access to firearms holds any benefit for society, the gun lobby’s view hasn’t changed. The day in and day out toll that gun death and injury inflicts on America—children killed in drive-by shootings, angry husbands shooting their entire families, alienated youths opening fire on their classmates, disgruntled employees shooting up their former workplaces, or hate-filled individuals shooting innocent people because they belong to a particular racial or religious group—will never exceed the NRA's “price of freedomPenn & Teller: Gun Control and Columbine
-- Violence Policy Center: "The Price of Freedom"
Gun Control Debate on Hannity and Combs with Allan Gottleib
911 caller Without Gun in Home Invasion
Horrible 911 dispatch call (Caution: Very Disturbing)
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NOBODY needs a gun ... until they really, really need one.
And then, it's too late.
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