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To: cosmicforce who wrote (211731)	12/15/2012 9:37:23 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541109

While shootings are dramatic, tragic, and make great headline fodder, there are 800,000 accidental poisonings a year. From a risk management point of view of preventable death, gun deaths are way below other means of harm such as disease and accident. That's hardly an argument to refuse to address gun violence. Much can't be prevented; risk is a part of life. But gun control legislation, work on the weird gun culture in which we live, all can let some folk live longer.

To: cosmicforce who wrote (211731)	12/15/2012 11:12:48 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541109

Gun deaths, especially like this one, have a corrosive effect on our society that poisonings (rightly or wrongly) don't have. You can say it's an illusion, but the reality people experience is to some extent the illusion they experience- and it significantly affects people's quality of life when these things happen. You can say it's irrational, but unless you convince people to believe you, and i don't think you can, it's something we need to prioritize for the good of our society.