How Much Is Your Child Worth?
Would $9,163 Cover It?
The homicidal maniac/serial killer/devil incarnate Joseph Stalin said, “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of a million is a statistic.”
The bloody-handed gun profiteers apparently subscribe to Stalin’s thinking. In 2021, they amassed a booty of 449 million dollars. That year saw 49,000 Americans killed by guns.
Dividing the profits by the losses (which should but doesn’t include the peripheral victims who grieve and mourn the loss of their child, grandchild, spouse, parent, sibling, aunt, uncle, niece, nephew, etc.), the pittance of $9,163 was greedily stuffed into the coffers of the purveyors of pain for each person killed by their products.
Would those promoting the expansion of gun sales (let alone refusing to even cooperate in limiting them, as reported in today’s New York Times, shown above) value their own children's lives at a mere $9,163? If not (and I assume not), why do they consider the lives of others’ children not worth that? And if they do value their children’s lives at only that paltry sum (or less?), at least they're being consistent. But, as Mark Twain said:
“There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency—and a virtue; and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency—and a vice.”…and:
“I am persuaded that the world has been tricked into adopting some false and most pernicious notions about consistency—and to such a degree that the average man has turned the rights and wrongs of things entirely around and is proud to be ‘consistent,’ unchanging, immovable, fossilized, where it should be his humiliation.”Hand guns are made for killin'
They ain't no good for nothin' else
And if you like to drink your whiskey
You might even shoot yourself
So why don't we dump 'em, people
To the bottom of the sea
Before some old fool come around here
Wanna shoot either you or me?
Mister Saturday Night Special
You got a barrel that's blue and cold
You ain't good for nothin'
But puttin' men six feet in a hole
It's the Saturday Night Special
And I'd like to tell you what you could do with it too