Garry Trudeau and Data

On Sunday, Feb. 13, the Doonebury comic noted the following:

• on 9/11 3,000 people died in an attack
• the US started two long, bloody ward
• the US built a vast homeland security apparatus
• all cost in the trillions
• during that nine years 270,000 Americans were killed by gunfire at home
• we responded by weakening our gun laws

What does a person do with that kind of data?

Does the data speak for itself?

Is there other data that needs to be examined and included?

Mr. Trudeau did not make note of the curtailing of civil rights, of due process and other freedoms previous generations fought and died for.

Mr. Trudeau did not draw any conclusions except that an alien from another planet might not comprehend.