According to a study led by Yale School of Medicine researchers and published in the medical journal Pediatrics,  every year over 10,000 children are injured or killed by gun violence in the United States.   How odd it is that this well known cause of death and injury to American children, to say nothing of the thousands of adults who are killed or injured, fails to gain the support of enough citizens and politicians to demand at least a conversation about limiting and controling gun ownership in the country. What does it say about our country and its citizens that the National Rifle Association gets most of its support from the very same segment of the population and support of the legislators who scream loudest that the President isn’t doing enough to address the threat of ebola in the country? Thomas Duncan has died in the U.S. from having been exposed to the Virus in Liberia.  Two nurses who attended him in the Dallas hospital were diagnosed with the disease.  Of course, ebola is a disease that is causing horrific suffering and death, at this time mainly in Africa.  Every precaution should be taken to keep the virus from spreading in the U.S. and in any other places in the world. Preventive measures should be taken. Preparations should be made to address the problems before they arise in the U.S.  We should be properly educated to face the possibility of a pandemic that might result in widespread infection in the U.S. and in any other part of the world.  

But… back to the question:  Where is the alarm over the very real 10.3 deaths by gunshot for every 100,000 people in the U.S.in 2011?  Where is the outrage?  The ratio hasn’t changed from the years 2012 and 2013, and 2014 statistics are on track to meet or surpass the number of deaths by gunshot.  Where is the indignation?  These are very real people who die every year, many of them innocent children  It’s a national disgrace that the NRA lobbies in Washington and in the 50 state capitals in the U.S. are successful in keeping reasonable gun control laws from being considered by state legislatures. This is not a virus, but the deaths are the result of ignorance… no, not ignorance because the cause is known… so it must be simple stupidity and lack of caring, a lack of respect for life.