What innocent people? What stories? Do you mean the ones you posted before? Some of those were accidental. The mall shooter, I don't know why that hasn't been a bigger story, probably timing plays a part in it with the other stuff going on.
Those statistics are to show what? 12000 out of ~322M is a VERY SMALL PERCENTAGE! On top of that how many of that 12k is in accidental? How many is in gang violence?
A 1/4 of that drowned every year in the us....similar percentage, very small, we going to start banning recreational swimming, pools, boating?
GMAFB