1967 – Jayne Mansfield is killed when her car runs under the rear end of a tractor trailer.  Since then, all trailers have a DOT bar at the rear to keep cars from going under them.

1982 – Seven people die when Tylenol packaging is tampered with.  Since then it takes an enormous amount of effort to open any bottle of pills.

1995 – A bombing using a certain fertilizer, solution grade ammonium nitrate, kills 168, so the government imposed severe restrictions on the purchase of that fertilizer.

2001 – One person attempts to blow up an airplane with a shoe bomb so now every traveler has to take off their shoes for scanning before boarding  a plane.

Since 1968 – 1,516,863 people have died from gunshot wounds in the United States.  Gun violence kills an average of 168 people every two days.  ALMOST 30% OF THOSE ARE WOMEN.  Now all the government has to offer to solve the problem is thoughts and prayers.