We’ve discussed just how dangerous FDA-approved drugs are here before, but it can never be repeated enough. And there are many ways to look at the issue, like the comparison in the video below between FDA-approved prescription medications and guns.

Everyone can agree that guns are dangerous, at least in the wrong hands. But the FDA is supposed to be helping us stay alive with drugs. There would have to be an Aurora, Colorado theater-type shooting every hour of every day for the number of gun deaths to equal the number of deaths from prescription drugs in the U.S.

Yet this massacre of Americans happens everyday. Where is President Obama’s speech against the pharmaceutical industry and the FDA?

- Joe Klare