Deliberate use of fallacy

[CapnAwesome]

I think 'gun deaths' is a type of logical fallacy. A death is a death regardless of the means.

That's silly. In trying to eliminate or minimize needless deaths, you have to categorize the cause of death. It's not like if the family of some kid who shot himself in the face didn't have a gun, he would have slipped in the shower instead-- at least not at that moment. He would have been reading comic books or jerking off or something.

The problem with what you're saying is that everyone thinks the statistics are "those other guys." Then they're surprised when it turns out that they aren't special God-favored snowflakes, and their kid's face is as susceptible to bullets as those of all those "just numbers" they thought didn't apply to them. You know what? I think you don't care about any of those kids, or their families. You'd rather hold some goofy idea about statistics, which no sensible person can believe in, than take real steps to protect little Johnny here:

I, for one, think this boy's life is valuable enough to justifying trying to keep it from being blown all over the wall of his parents' closet.

Appeal to emotion anyone? Are you deliberately using fallacies on me as a test case?