The Kind-Hearted Smart Aleck

When 9/11 occurred, everyone in this country was frightened, and understandably, we sought comfort, answers, and a way forward. A majority of people appeared to have no problem affording the government more power to provide us with a sense of security, a feeling such an attack would never happen again. We even went so far as to allow the government to impede on our civil liberties for this feeling of comfort. This was over a (hopefully) once-in-a-lifetime attack, where 3,000 people lost their lives. Sadly, on an annual basis, we lose approximately 30,000 people in this country to gun violence. If we use that number and apply it equally across years, approximately 450,000 people have died via gun violence since the 9/11 attacks. Just based on the number of fatalities, we've suffered 150 9/11s via gun violence since September 11th (2001). Yet, no matter how many die from gun violence, Congress won't seem to budge on the matter. This is largely due to the power of the gun lobby, l...