Editor:
Since 2001, 4,977 (and still counting) Americans have died in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, while back here at home during roughly the same time span (2001-09) – 23, 575 children have died from guns.
In those same two years, the number of preschoolers killed by guns was almost double the number of police officers killed in the line of duty – 173 preschoolers versus 89 police officers.
Between 1979 and 2009 (30 years)…