Another shooting story with five dead.

[Cyrano]

This isn't about guns. It's about stupidity.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/02/yuma-shooting-arizona-dead_n_870491.html

This one was in Arizona, but it could just as well have been Maine, Oregon, Iowa, or Delaware.

The local sheriff called this "very, very, foolish." Crossing against a red light is "foolish." Shooting five people and then shooting yourself doesn't quite fit the word "foolish."

I have no idea what the body count is from shootings in this country over, say, the past 10 years. I also don't know how many people have died from cigarettes over the past 10 years.

But I can say that one of these causes of death is a personal choice and the other is not. Either way, it seems we humans are doomed to live in a state of self-destruction.

I wonder if there are planets on which sentient inhabitants value life more than we do?

[godai]

1. There are many COUNTRIES "on which sentient inhabitants value life more than we do".

Gun deaths in the US greatly surpass other civilized countries.

[Pithlet]

2. It's about both. n/t

[Cid_B]

3. Still a superior statement than the one by Dupnik

after the Loughner shooting.

[Ramulux]

4. This actually is about guns

The rest of the world has stronger gun regulation and magically they have less violent gun related crime.