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Here’s an interesting statistic that today drew some attention on one of the many Sunday morning TV news\/talk shows.<\/p>\n

In the past decade, 153,144 people have died in this country from gun violence; 3,046 individuals have\u00a0died at the hands of terrorists during that same period.<\/p>\n

This came from Chuck Todd, moderator of “Meet the Press,” citing the stats\u00a0provided by\u00a0the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.<\/p>\n

He asked Rich Lowry, editor of the National Review, about whether the country needs to do as much to combat gun violence as it has done to battle terrorism.<\/p>\n

Lowry gave a reasonable and intelligent answer, which was that government’s fundamental role is to protect citizens against foreign enemies; he added that any gun-related action “on the margins” won’t do anything and that more comprehensive action runs the risk of infringing on the Constitution’s Second Amendment right to “keep and bear arms.”<\/p>\n

Meet the Press tackles gun violence<\/a><\/p>\n

The discussion was fascinating.<\/p>\n

Still, I’m a bit baffled by the fact that with such a huge disparity between gun-violence deaths and terror-related deaths, we still have been unable — or unwilling — to deploy government’s machinery to impose additional restrictions on gun ownership that does not infringe on citizens’ right to own a firearm.<\/p>\n

After all, the government created a whole new Cabinet-level agency — the Department of Homeland Security — immediately after the 9\/11 terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n

Still, madmen take guns into public places and massacre thousands more innocent victims … and we do nothing?<\/em><\/p>\n

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