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> Why guns are the hot-button issue and heart disease isn’t plastered over the media 24/7? Heart disease does get public attention -- check your breakfast cere

> Why guns are the hot-button issue and heart disease isn’t plastered over the media 24/7? Heart disease does get public attention -- check your breakfast cereal, as a banal example: odds are it touts its "heart healthiness" -- and gun control isn't 24/7 either. But there are a few components to consider. One is that gun deaths are traumatic beyond the impact of just the death. The murder of someone you love, where another human being willfully ended their life, is a whole different thing to process psychologically than their death after an illness or even in an accident. Can we reduce those ripples of harm by preventing these murders? That "willful" bit is important too: a gun enables a person to kill a bunch of other people. Should our society make that enabling easy? Heart disease isn't perpetrated by one person on another. And, yes, you can kill a lot of people at once with a car, too. But a gun's entire purpose is killing; aside from that and sport shooting it's useless. A car is actually better for just visiting grandma or picking up groceries than being a murder weapon. And the most important point is to rebut the relative privation that you've presented: of course the other causes of death are a problem. That doesn't preclude dealing with this one. Gun control advocates believe that there are obvious, straightforward measures that we're not taking advantage of that can reduce gun violence. Are there such measures for the flu?

bigwavedave 7y ago
> "Gun deaths are traumatic beyond the impact of just the death." I don't think you've ever lost a loved one. If you had, you'd understand that what you're saying is completely bonkers and is extremely insulting to those of us who have lost loved ones.
- wool_gather 7y ago
  I have lost multiple close family members in the last decade, including a sudden and unexpected death of a relatively young person. The ad hominem adds nothing to the discussion.

bigwavedave 7y ago

> "Gun deaths are traumatic beyond the impact of just the death." I don't think you've ever lost a loved one. If you had, you'd understand that what you're saying is completely bonkers and is extremely insulting to those of us who have lost loved ones.

wool_gather 7y ago
I have lost multiple close family members in the last decade, including a sudden and unexpected death of a relatively young person. The ad hominem adds nothing to the discussion.