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"the fact remains that the United States is a firearm-oriented culture where, according to the Center for Disease Control, some 30,000 persons die annually as a direct result of firearm-related incidents"

About 40,000 die in thier bathtubs every year. Should we get rid of those too? Does that make us a "bathtub" culture?

[Little Ray]

IIRC, of those 30,000, the majority are suicides, and a substantial part of the rest are scum killing scum with no net loss to society.
The actual number of innocent folks murdered are far, far less than many other causes, cars, bathtubs, etc.
When the numbers are actually analyzed, it becomes pretty obvious that “gun control” is about control, not about crime prevention.