Originally Posted by: R. Shackleferd...If people took their driving skills/habits and washing their hands as seriously as gun control, perhaps we wouldn't have so many traffic deaths and flu/viral fatalities...both of which I'd bet kill more people than guns.

It's one of those "knee-jerk" reaction things.
How much have you heard people tell you about the ravages that HIV/AIDS is meteing out on Africa? Probably a lot. Well, I'm told that good old Malaria kills more people that HIV/AIDS. I'd never have guessed it, looking at all the activity revolving around the scourge (I'd have written "the scourge", but then people might have thought I didn't take HIV/AIDS seriously, which I do).