According to the CDC and a NY Times poll approximately 33,000 persons were killed by gunfire in 2016. What they fail to tell us is that there are around 325,000,000 of us in our land. You do the math. Does this total seem outlandish to you?! While each death is tragic, the idea that we are a craven violent society where millions are being killed is ridiculous. Someone needs to get the word out that 33,000 gun deaths out of 325,000,000 people is a paltry total. WE MUST DEFEND OUR RIGHT TO BEAR ARMS!! This is essential to ensure that a wayward government or crazed political party or movement will not take hold and strip our rights to defend our families, and ALSO prohibit us from being enslaved by a wayward government. It's happened before, you know!