Doug the moderate...

Your too moderate Doug. The people at the heads of the organizations you represent are for full civilian disarmament. Hillary Clinton and Bloomberg types, New York and California would-be technocrats who have run their home states into the ground economically and social policy wise. They (the radical anti-gun apparatchiks) want to strip the citizens of the means to fight back so when the final days of reckoning occur (4% chance?) there won't be a reversal of the social pyramid. Also I dispute your figures re: death toll. But even if they were accurate, I would argue that certain types of freedom are worth the inherent risk and you should too. Also I think the majority of American citizens are gun owners, cause there is a lot of guns in this country okrrrrr? Also, I argue you don't really understand modern firearms precisely because you endow them with a kind of "half-life before each one kills someone" which is simply not the case at all. Yeah, firearms kill a few people, but even in the aggregate it's not that many persons and certainly nowhere near other socially tolerated forms of death (smoking, obesity, etc) and owning a gun doesn't mean you will have mortality rates similar to someone who is habituated to tobacco or even someone who eats lots of red and processed meats because those people are def. going to get bladder cancer, colon, or pancreatic cancer like what killed Patrick Swayze. True story. (I can provide all the links you need to rigorous scientific study to back up that eating certain forms of food will give you cancer. In the hopes that you will opt out of the factory meat consumption illusion in this country perpetrated to keep you fat, depressed, and unable to resist the fatal demands of predatory individualism in late stage capitalism). As for your hopes of a future where firearms are in decline as a matter of the public's fascination and ability to acquire, defcad.org and defcad.com stand in opposition to such a scenario. Human beings have a natural right to determine the course of their own safety even in opposition to the presumed safety and stability of the herd.