Thirteen dead in Washington, DC. A victory for Wayne LePierre.

Rampage at Navy Yard: A gunman killed at least a dozen people and wounded others after opening fire at the Washington Navy Yard on Monday, police said. He died in a gunfight with police.

Nearly 9000 dead at the hand of guns since Sandy Hook. A victory for Wayne LePierre.

One of the biggest complaints by gun owners is there should be no restriction on guns passed on between family members. Well, guess where most of those incarcerated for gun violence get the weapons they killed with? 

National Law Enforcement Memorial Fund (click here)

 
There has been a decrease in police deaths over the past few years.

2007 - 191
2008 - 142
2009 - 124
2010 - 161
2011 - 169
2012 - 120

But, basically, there is very little statistical improvement that remains significant. To say there is a sustained decrease is an error. The decreases don't maintain their status over a prolonged period of time. The fluctuations are too different to find a trend line. A simple trend line. It relates to numbers of officers in service, their conditions of employment and the conditions on the street they face.

Guns are a consistent condition for the death of police officers. It dispels the idea that if a person is well armed they can defeat anyone attempting to cause their death. It is a ridiculous idea attached to the gun industry profits. 

Those killed in domestic violence are the better proof of the lethality of gun ownership. There was the Facebook episode to prove the point. Guns are objects of personal power. It depends on the person to the degree of criminality attached to that personal power. 

Sure, guns are for sport and for self-defense, but, they are strongly attached to wrongful deaths and suicide. It cannot be ignored as an 'outlier' of a society because of the finality of it's outcome. 

Military style weapons have absolutely no place in the American society. They are an expression of personal power that is a hideous identity that escalates the image of killing as a soldier in a peaceful and orderly society.

The more people, the more guns equates to more deaths. The only way to eliminate these statistics is control the guns. In a democracy people are uncontrollable in a way that would mitigate this reality.
The availability of guns in high population areas has to be taken seriously. These incidence are ridiculous.