Frank's famous!

[Cynical Ninja]

OP hasn't bothered to check the breakdown of the numbers - i.e. how many of those gun-related deaths are gang related or cops killing citizens. If he really broke it down he would realize that the vast majority of gun related incidents don't involve almost all of us, and that gun owners as a whole are exemplary in their law-abiding nature.

The problem, ultimately, comes down to ignorance and wanting freedom for free. You know, pretending that there isn't a cost to freedom and that the use or misuse of a basic right (to effective self defense in this case) is a good excuse to destroy it. People like OP tend to be OK with ignoring the principles of freedom because either their culture either wasn't born out of fighting for them or because it's been too long since the citizenry has had to truly protect them.

OP doesn't recognize that the citizens are the store keepers and are responsible for their own safety and Government ... he is a sheep in a Country on the ramp to sheep heaven.

You can delude yourself all you like that the only people being killed with guns in America are cops and robbers because that is bullplop, thousands of truly innocent people die at the end of a gun in America every year, accept it.

The idea I can never truly be free unless I am free to own a 44 magnum is retarded.

41% of gun related homicides and 94% of gun suicides would not occur under the same circumstances had no gun been present plus -

Keeping a gun in the home raises the risk of homicide.
Keeping a gun the home raises the risk of suicide.
A gun in the home is more likely to be used in a homicide, suicide or unintentional shooting then to be used in self defence.
Many children and teens live in households with firearms including ones that loaded and unlocked.
More than 40% of gun owning households with children store their guns unlocked.

If yours is locked up and/or unloaded how can it be practically used to "defend" the home in the mere seconds it may take an intruder to intrude?