Sarasota Herald-Tribune
Gun violence is America’s deadliest scourge
I can’t quite agree with the author of “Dispelling myth of the ‘angry white man,’” an April 11 letter claiming that “the deadliest attack against Americans since the year 2000 was committed by 19 Islamic terrorists.”
Yes, the 9/11 attack that took the lives of almost 3,000 people was horrible and shocking. But, in the grand scale of things, our continuous gun violence has done much more damage to Americans and America.
In 2001 alone, gun violence took the lives of nearly 30,000 people, and the annual numbers have risen since then.
For years, studies have shown that we have the highest rate of gun homicides, gun suicides, gun injuries and mass shootings in the developed world.