Cigarettes kill far more people than guns do; yet we aren’t creating stricter laws to control cigarette sales…or taking them off the market.

In 2020, gun related deaths reached an all time high of 41,000+ by December. Sadly, 23,000 of these gun related incidents were death by suicide. Could these numbers be inflated by the pandemic and stress and depression being at an all time high? Sure. Numbers haven’t been this inflated since 1981 reported by the Crime and Justice News.

Cigarette & tobacco related deaths totaled 480,000 in 2020 and that number includes deaths from second hand smoke. Tobacco use is the leading preventable cause of death in the United States each year.

Guns don’t kill people. People kill people. Someone has to pull the trigger.

Tobacco kills people. CDC reported that (ready for this…..pay attention) second hand smoke causes an estimated 41,000 deaths each year in the United States. Did you get that? Every year, people are killed by cigarette smoke….innocently….second handedly…and the same number of the gun related deaths last year. Yet, cigarettes are still on the market.

We scream for more gun control and stricter gun laws. The criminals love this theory…because it doesn’t affect them. Let’s let everyone get caught up with more laws for gun purchase, as the criminals make their deals on the streets. They don’t buy at gun stores, they don’t do background checks. As we keep the law abiding citizens tied up and slowed down, the wrong doers continue to work the streets.

{This world is far from perfect. We could use improvements in many areas. And the suicide number scares me over all, but especially related to guns. That means guns aren’t being locked up as they should be. This is something to change and those purchasing guns legally, this could be a discussion. Again, it’s not all….}

Just goes to show you that if your pockets are deep enough and the right people are paid… I’m not even sure how I want to finish that sentence. I’ll let you fill in the blank there and draw your own conclusion. To know that people die from second hand smoke, 7,333 from lung cancer and 33,951 from heart disease (again, CDC sourced) and we continue to sell cigarettes; it’s equal parts alarming and appalling.