..."each year about 30,000 Americans die from gunfire, a body count that compares to the 34,000 US soldiers killed in Korea and the 58,000 who died in Vietnam.
And for every American killed by a gun, there are two non-fatal firearm injuries.
The cost of gun-related violence has been estimated as high as $US100 billion ($134 billion) a year but the most chilling statistic is one from the National Centre for Injury Prevention and Control which calculates that American kids are 12 times more likely to die from gunfire than children in 25 other industrialised countries combined. "

From The Australian http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/st ... 03,00.html

Sheer madness or Freudian compensation?