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The actual figure is over 30,000. Even someone as smart as Friedman should have been able to figure out the government simply can't be everywhere and can't protect every one from being murdered. But then again its just like liberals to totally ignore reality altogether. In their make believe world, there's really no such thing as evil and when some horrible thing happens, its that the government hasn't tried hard enough to deal with the root causes - and no Friedman doesn't mean here the evil guy, the sniper, the one who is perpetrating the mayhem and carnage in the Washington D.C area - he means the guns law-abiding citizens own as though the gun had a life of its own. Its eerily similar to liberals pet hate of SUV's. Its the car stupid, not the driver that's eeevil. And the subtext of Friedman's message is that President Bush is evil because he isn't confiscating guns immediately and extorting more of the citizen's money to feed an ever bigger government. We should be so lucky to read such idiotic blather from the leading New York Times journalist. No doubt too, Friedman has heard the Mullah Howard Raines loud and clear on how the most prominent paper in the country should spread the Democrats' message far and wide.