Um, wow, are you like some kind of special retard? I mean, I know your gun is an addiction and stuff, but if you want to make comparisons, we do a lot to prevent smoking. Try smoking pretty much anywhere but your house these days. We have hundreds of police hunting drunk drivers. As opposed to guns, where any crazy loon can buy one, and then we wonder why we have so many gun deaths.
Proper discourse doesn't mean you assume. Which you are. I'm not a crazy gun addict. I only own two small handguns. That's it. My wife and I have done handgun training so that in the even we need to protect our persons or our family we can.
The point that you're failing to see is that many blame guns and therefore want guns removed or overly restricted. The same does not hold true for smoking and drinking. This is evidence by the forum. How many "we need to regulate tobacco and alcohol even more" threads do we see?
As for smoking, I don't, never have, never will. Terrible habit. BUT, when the government decided to tell privately owned businesses what they can and can't do in their own business. I have a problem with that. As terrible as smoking is for someone's health, and second hand smoke, if people want to do that, in a private business that would allow them, then so be it.
I will also ask again, how many drunk driving deaths do we need to see before we need to make alcohol illegal again? If you take away suicides, gun deaths are about 20,000. Drunk driving, 10,000. So when does alcohol become a target to make illegal for you?
Soooo many gun deaths. 40,000 in 2019 if I remember the correct year. Over half of those are due to suicide. So that actual number of deaths by a shooter who is not the victim is lower.
Yet, the over 600,000 deaths in this country by means which the gov't could do more or legislate or even make illegal, some of you don't care about those deaths. The truth is in the data.