Jon Stewart's plea for gun control

Since there are about 12k homicides by gun in the US each year do you also feel we need better alcohol reform such as limiting the amount of alcohol that can be purchased, background checks before people can purchase alcohol and limiting the alcohol by volume since 75,000 people a year are in alcohol related deaths and about 17 million people in the US are alcoholics?

You see, if it doesn't make sense for something else it pretty much just doesn't make sense.

To put the number of alcohol related deaths compared to the number of murders by gun in perspective....

If we had 6 Sandy Hook shootings every single day in the US on top of all the other shootings annually we would still have more alcohol related deaths than gun homicides.
I don't understand this "death competition" line of reasoning. So we shouldn't tackle anything except the number one cause of death in America? And once that drops to #2, cut all of the things that got it to number 2 to focus back on the new number one?

Hey you cancer victims, since we have more heart disease deaths in the country, we're not going to do anything else towards lowering the number of cancer deaths or cancer cases until we can get heart disease down to #2. Then we'll open back up the Cancer research labs again.

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