"How come the same people who are opposed to gun ownership, second amendment rights, because 'guns are dangerous'..are in denial about AIDS, which is far more fatal?"

Two small problems there, GfS. First, your assumption that it's all the same people. You are doing the "liberals are idiots" thing again. Pigeon-hole thinking. And the second problem:    since when is possibly exposing oneself to AIDS more "fatal" than a bullet between the eyes? There are people infected with HIV who have been alive for years because they can keep the virus in check with drugs. I don't know of any palliatives for having one's brains splattered all over the street.

And a question for Ake:    I have no quarrel with the statistics from the CDC. I do have questions about your interpretation of them.

If AIDS is a "homosexual disease," then why is it that homosexuals are not the only people to get it? And if you are so concerned about the spread of AIDS, why, then, are you so opposed to attempting to confine it by discouraging promiscuity and encouraging stable relationships?

Answer me that, please.

Don Firth