Random thoughtfuls

A few things to ponder:

• You are 15% more likely to die from gunshot wounds in America than any other country
• All States of the Union now allow concealed weapons to be carried
• Very few states have screening requirements for gun purchases
• No state has a waiting period for purchase of guns
• Licensing requirements (where they exist) are not standardised
• Hunting accounts for less than 6% of the population of the States
• Every day in America, guns claim 84 lives and wound nearly 200
• There is no constitutional right to buy submachine guns or silencers
• Australia has had NO mass killings since gun control laws were passed in the wake of the Port Arthur killings (1996)
• 'Guns don't kill, people do' is nonsensical. Guns sell in their hundreds of thousands, don't tell me it's so they'll just sit in a cupboard and look menacing - they are made to kill (and that would be the point Sherlock)!