How touching...

In another attempt to scare people into supporting a gun ban, Barrack Obama’s Twitter account retweeted this picture of John Lennon's bloody glasses from the day he was murdered. The photo includes text that more than a million people have been killed by guns since Lennon was shot in 1980.

That’s real nice, but numbers alone don’t tell the full story. How many of those were mere accidents?  You know, accidents that happen to people every day like slipping and falling in the bathtub. Nobody wants to ban those.  The numbers also do not account for people killed while attacking, assaulting or otherwise attempting to harm someone who is carrying a gun. Many of these deaths could be completely justified and may have actually prevented more deaths.

Since 1980, an average of 120, 000 people have died each year from smoking-attributable lung cancer. That is almost four times the number of people who have died from guns. Where is the call to ban cigarettes? Why is the president not tweeting this picture out?

Guns are used for hunting and self-defense while being protected by the second amendment.  What use do cigarettes provide? Their sole purpose seems to be killing people.  They certainly do it more than guns. And I can’t think of any other thing they do besides make your clothes and hair reek and cause house and roadside fires. Guns have a purpose, cigarettes do not.

 And let's not even get into salt...