Gun Control & RKBA

30k people a year die from plastic knives get back to me with your silliness.

And no saying that some people can be trusted with a grenade doesn't mean grenades should be readily available to the public. Saying that, if 30k people a year died by grenade they'd be outlawed and confiscated.

Oh wait. They are illegal. Because there's no safe way for 350m Americans to have access to hand grenades without lots of death. Kinda like guns.

You can pretend 30k people dying a year from one cause, for decades, includes thousands and thousands of children isn't an epidemic, then you don't know what an epidemic is.

http://www.healthline.com/health/worst-disease-outbreaks-history

That's a list of the top 10 epidemics/pandemics in the history of the US.

1793: Yellow Fever Outbreak in Philadelphia: 2000 dead
1830-1851: Second Cholera Pandemic: 150k dead in 22 years
1918: Spanish Flu Pandemic: 675,000 dead
1952: Polio Epidemic: 3,145 dead
1957: Asian Flu Pandemic: 70k dead
1977: Mexican Hot Sauce Botulism Outbreak: less than 60 affected
1993: Cryptosporidium Outbreak in Milwaukee: 100+ killed
2010: Whooping Cough in California: 10 dead
1980s to Now: The AIDS Epidemic: 660k in 30 years - 22k a year on average - 13,712 in 2012

Guns kill more people annually than:

1793: Yellow Fever Outbreak in Philadelphia: 2000 dead
1830-1851: Second Cholera Pandemic: 150k dead in 22 years
1952: Polio Epidemic: 3,145 dead
1977: Mexican Hot Sauce Botulism Outbreak: less than 60 affected
1993: Cryptosporidium Outbreak in Milwaukee: 100+ killed
2010: Whooping Cough in California: 10 dead
1980 to Now: AIDS

As far as the elderly... Now that IS scaremongering. Elderly people are much less likely to suffer from violent crime in Europe and guess what - they don't have guns to protect themselves. Huh.

All American pro-gun arguments boil down to the same thing: justifications for the senseless deaths of 10s of thousands of Americans.

It's OK that thousands of kids are gunned down a year, because of elderly people. Or because the majority of gun owners aren't murders. Or because guns are just tools.