There are more gun shops in America (58,000+) than there are Starbucks...in the ENTIRE WORLD.

[bullwinkle428]

This was reported by Kai Ryssdal on NPR's Marketplace this evening. I don't have anything particularly profound as far as a comment...I was just gob-smacked by the statistic, and felt compelled to share it.

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/life/final-note/final-note-there-are-more-58000-gunshops-us

[Hoyt]

1. And they will be full of yahoos drooling over the latest lethal weapons tomorrow.

[Skittles]

2. yup; nothing like a massacre to bring the cowards out en masse

[bullwinkle428]

4. "NOW HE'S REALLY GONNA TAKE OUR GUNS AWAY!!1!1!"

As if it wasn't already a "magical" season for the gun shop owners.

[Coyotl]

3. USA: Ambulatory care visits with mental disorders, near 200,000 per day.

Ambulatory care visits (to physician offices, hospital outpatient and emergency departments) with mental disorders

[bullwinkle428]

5. You don't have to be a math major to realize how scary a formula you come with up

when you consider those two sets of numbers...