text: A thousand people died from gunshots between 2009 and 2015 ?  And most of those did it to themselves ? As sad as that is , why do we avoid writing about the far greater tragedy ? Last year alone , as reported in the Dispatch , around 4000 completely innocent nearly born Alaskan's were killed by abortion .  There's little reason to think the numbers were much different in the same amount of years this gun study used , meaning during the same time period around 28,000 totally innocent babies were murdered.  Where's the outrage in that ?  Clearly the number one intenional killer in Alaska is abortion , yet few publicly care. In fact , you have Planned Parenthood supporters screaming to keep funding PP even though out of 4000 abortions last year , they were behind about 3400 of them.   On many issues things need to be put in proper perspective. Guns aren't killing most of us---abortions are killing way more . Where's the story or outrage over that ?