We could call it the "War on Suicide". And with the gov't expanding faster than a black hole, we ought to nominate someone to be the Suicide czar.

Why so many gun deaths in homicides? Would these crimes happen anyway if it weren't for the guns? I'm not trying to subvert responsibility, but what I mean is, a gun gives you instant respect, right, just like how a nuke gives you instand respect if you're a nation. But take the nuke away, and there's a pretty good chance you won't use the rest of your arsenal. Like Iran. They don't have a nuke and Israel has many nukes. Therefore, Iran will continue to be pesky and talk tough, but they know that if they ever did anything to Israel, Israel would has the might to wreak some pretty good damage on Iran.

So in relation to the average 11,000 or so gun homicides in America every year, if people had a much tighter access to guns, would they pick up knives or baseball bats or other things to get done what they wanted to get done?