Ed Hum – 5/17/07

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Death toll hasn’t budged much; Edward J. Hum; Beaver County Times; May 17, 2007.

Below is a detailed critique of the subject letter.

“We know President Bush was deeply distressed when he spoke at Virginia Tech after the campus killings.

“However, the average number of firearms deaths in the United States each day used to be 70 to 75. If the president could realize that although the Virginia Tech killings raised that day’s total to about 100, it didn’t raise the daily average very much.

“We know the president, if he had time, would meet everyone of the 3,400 body bags returning from Iraq. However, only about 1,200 of these are small-arms deaths.

“The president should realize that even including Columbine, Nickel Mine, Virginia Tech and Iraq, in the four year total of 100,000 or so firearms deaths in the United States (and without doing the arithmetic), I bet the average daily small arms deaths didn’t rise to more than 79 or 80.”

[RWC] Does anyone know the point of this letter?