Third Parties and Third Rails

A great advantage of being a third party candidate is that I can talk freely about third rail issues without committing political suicide no matter what I say.
A doozy of a third rail issue that I will return to is guns. Let us approach the issue by noting that approximately 10,000 people are killed each year by gunfire. The first question is while zero is the only acceptable number, what number can we tolerate given the realities of human existence?
Looking for guidance in Syria, 30,000 people have been killed over the last year and a half and many call for military intervention to stop it. This however is not hugely more than the number who have been killed in this country over the same period. Against this Syria is a country less than one tenth of the size of the US, but in the US the killings have been going on for decades as opposed to months.
Next we have to avoid Stalinist thinking. You know Stalin famously said if one person dies, that is a tragedy, if a million people die that is a statistic. We may be seeing this in the response to the Aurora shooting where 12 people tragically died, which did nothing more than bump the total shot dead for that day up to 42 from 30, but caused an international sensation and much soul searching about gun control. So it can be inferred when we banish Stalin from our minds, that 10,000 people shot each year is intolerable. Then we remember we are Americans, we dont just go around wringing our hands we do something about it.
Pretty quickly we will start talking about money.