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It’s Time to Get Serious…About Alcohol

cchuba Wrote: Dec 20, 2012 10:30 AM
T.the analogy to alcohol falls flat because alcohol abuse limits its victims to a relatively small number while a crazed gunman can kill dozens. Drunk drivers do not kill anything close to 26 people.
IsraelFirsterSecond Wrote: Dec 20, 2012 10:52 AM
I see your point but does mass murder by one person outweigh literally thousands of deaths by hundredsor thousands of drunks one at a time?

America, we are in a time of crisis. And, meaningful action must be taken before another life is lost. That time for action is now.

According to the World Health Organization, alcohol is responsible for nearly 4 percent of all deaths worldwide. In the United States alone, more than 24,500 people died in 2009 as a result of alcohol, excluding accidents and homicides. In 2010, 31 percent of all traffic-related deaths in the U.S. were the result of alcohol, taking 10,228 lives.

Fellow Americans, something must be done. Too many lives have been lost because of alcohol. Innocent lives snuffed...

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