Adding together firearm deaths due to suicide, homicide or accident, guns kill approximately 32,000 Americans every year. Contrast the number of Americans killed per annum by international terrorists since 9/11:
None.
Yet a nation which, given the clout of the NRA, will spend nothing on gun control measures, since 9/11 thinks nothing of the six hundred and forty billion dollars squandered on homeland security while simultaneously acquiescing to all manner of restrictions on personal freedoms of far greater importance than that enshrined in the Second Amendment. At the same time this nation rejects any curbs on the devices that continue to kill Americans by the thousands. International terrorists who seethe in their hatred for this country might well applaud our apparent willingness to allow the National Rifle Association to do their work for them.