All The Talk About Guns, But Drugs Kill More People

By Tom Knighton

In the aftermath of any mass shooting, the rhetoric builds up in intensity as gun control advocates continue to push for their favorite measures, none of which would ever really stop a mass shooting. The gun grabbers love to follow the adage, “Never let a good crisis go to waste,” and this one isn’t any different.

Because of Parkland, we’re going to hear more and more and more about how much we need new gun laws to keep people safe. The thing is, there’s something far more lethal on the American streets.

More than 50,000 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the highest figure ever.

The tally has been pushed to new heights by soaring abuse of heroin and prescription painkillers, especially fentanyl.

Heroin deaths rose 23 per cent in a year, to 12,989, slightly higher than the number of gun homicides, according to government data released yesterday.

The total number of gun deaths – which included suicides and accidents – rose seven per cent to 36,252.

It comes only days after another report which showed fentanyl, a synthetic opiate which is 40 times stronger than heroin, has become the largest drug threat to the United States, and causes 44 deaths every …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms