We've all argued the 2nd amendment ad nauseum here. Suffice it to say that gun violence is a huge problem in our society and cloaking the issue under Constitutional rights is just a cop-out, IMO.
I wouldn't call it an obsession. Maybe when you have children, you'll be less callous about it. Every day habitual drunkards get behind the wheel of a car and endanger the lives of everyone on the road. Their physical and mental responses are compromised. I don't know if you've ever driven drunk but many of those who do think they have it all under control. But it's just a figment of their drunken thinking.
Ha, talk about callous. You don't personally know all the women who have had abortions but they're pretty significant to you. I guess your sympathies are limited to in utero.
We don't live in those countries. Last year we had the country's worst mining disaster in 40 years. Massey Energy had years of flagrant safety violations. Blankenship had a cavalier disregard for the workers' welfare.
In 2005, Blankenship wrote a memo to employees telling them that maximizing coal production was more important than spending time constructing things like support beams or ventilation shafts:[49]
“ If any of you have been asked by your group presidents, your supervisors, engineers or anyone else to do anything other than run coal (i.e., build overcasts, do construction jobs, or whatever) you need to ignore them and run coal.
Some countries may have worse standards but we're not just comparing statistics, we're talking about making the work environment as safe as possible for our people.
