Deaths By Gun-Wielding U.S. Pales In Comparison To UK Health Service Deaths

More people are killed by Nationalized Health Care in the UK than are murdered with firearms in the US. This pointed out by Sailorcurt, who notes a Guardian newspaper story that the 17,000 people receiving treatment in the UK who died unnecessarily because of the inadequacies of the National Health Service, equates to 85,000 deaths here based on our population.

Deaths by murderers who use guns pale in comparison. He's right. I took a closer look and found a 2007 New York Times story (published right after the shootings at Virginia Tech, the campus where students, faculty and staff had been ordered by the administration not to carry their lawful concealed firearms for self-defense), which said 29,569 people died in 2004 here, the most recent year for which statistics are available. These deaths included gang-on-gang killings and suicides. Of course, the Times, in its photo illustration, illustrates deaths using bullets in a transparent attempt to further villify lawfully owned firearms.

When you look at this stuff, you don't know whether to be further aggravated by a media, well-funded grabber organizations and anti self-defense politicians who continue to demonize a legal tool with countless positive uses instead of putting blame on criminals where it below, or worried about the future of this nation's healthcare.

Asks Sailorcurt, "Isn't it great what we have to look forward to when (not if) nationalized health care comes to a country near you?"