Recently, a powerful new gun control group has emerged, called Everytown for Gun Safety, a combining of several smaller gun control groups, including Women Against Gun Violence and Mom's Demand Action. So we can now have a discussion about the latest public safety menace, the epidemic of gun violence. This is after the US Senate could not even agree on banning gun purchases for anyone on the terrorism watch list in the wake of the Pulse nightclub massacre. You know the tide has turned against gun violence when even the American Medical Association calls it a public health menace at the finish of its annual convention. Add to the homicide number the 550 or so victims of police shootings, roughly the same number of accidental gun deaths and the 21,000+ Americans who use a gun to end their own lives, and the total gun mortality number this year may go above 35,000.'

Source: Huffington Post June 24, 2016 23:18 UTC