“How many deaths will it take ‘til he knows that too many people have died?”
Many of us remember that protest song from the Vietnam era. And the daily body counts.
Nowadays, we hear similar body counts from mass shootings, suicides, homicides and accidental shootings. Too commonly.
It took eight years for 58,220 U.S. servicemen to die in Vietnam. The death toll from gun violence in the United States for just one year, 2017, was 39,773. Only Brazil has a higher annual death rate. And we have more guns per capita than any other developed country, essentially one firearm per person.