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And yet those are the same people who don't consider alcohol deaths to be an epidemic, and aren't treating it as such.

I don't know anyone that finds the gun epidemic as well as the alcohol epidemic to not be equally bad.

The numbers indicate that the alcohol epidemic is an order of magnitude worse. Someone who believes they are equally bad is either minimizing the alcohol epidemic or inflating the gun epidemic.

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