News Flash: Guns DO Kill People--over 30,000 per year in the U.S.

Dot Calm's shadow here ...

A Tea Party Evangelical friend of mine believes that very few people die from gunshot injuries each year in America.

He swears that maybe a few hundred or a few thousand at most lose their lives prematurely this way.

But instead of comforting yourself with a lie or pretending that our way of life--or, in this case, death--is so wonderful that all of Europe is falling all over themselves to line up and duplicate it, you can look it up for yourself and get the truth.

Seriously.

Just go Google it.

If you do, you'll find real statistics, like from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

I know, I know ... real statistics aren't nearly as comforting as what you can get from the right-wing echo chamber, but according to the CDC, over 30,000 Americans died from firearm injuries in 2013 (http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/fastats/injury.htm).

From what I see surfing the statistics, this number has been consistent in recent years.

30,000.

Dead Americans from firearms.

When we were looking at 5 possible cases of Ebola in the United States, right wing heads exploded.

But OVER 30,000 gun deaths?

Nah, nothing to see here.

Let President Obama visit the NEXT school shooting massacre and ignore THIS one, Ben Carson said.

How many days will that take?

At the rate we're going, we're due any day now.

Seriously, Tea Bags.

Don't claim to know something you don't--or won't--because you're either too lazy to look it up or just can't tolerate an objective reality that differs from your beloved made-up fantasy.

News flash: objective reality is a thing.