Tuesday -- the day before President Barack Obama unveiled his new proposals to reduce gun violence, including background checks on all gun sales and a revised ban on assault weapons -- was like any other average day of bloodshed in the United States.

There were no catastrophes comparable to the Newtown tragedy that spurred the national debate on gun control, only the run-of-the-mill shootings that make the U.S.

More Americans Have Died From Domestic Gunfire Than All Wars In U.S. History – Is That True? Yes, It Is

PBS’s Mark Shields gets it right @ PolitiFact

Let’s start with the number: 1,384,171.

1,38,171 people have died in the most devastating war fought by Americans. Which war, you ask? World War I? World War II? The Civil War?

None of the above.

Introduction

The National Rifle Association (NRA) claims that it supports vigorous enforcement of our nation's gun laws and efforts to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. Yet the NRA has actually worked to put guns back into criminals' hands. Following is the saga of the federal "relief from disability" program. The NRA has worked to expand and protect this guns-for-felons program that has rearmed thousands of convicted—and often violent—felons.

Besides my blog posts, I'm a published writer as I speak. Now, what else could that mean since everybody and their mama can publish a book nowadays?

Well, first off, I'm somebody's mama so I can't tell you about nobody else's. What I can tell you is why I wrote this book of flash fiction. It's chockful of very short stories that kinda bite the shit outta you, hence the title.