Florida Republican Governor Ron DeSatan, unbelievably a double Ivy League graduate, is doing his darnedest best to get his fellow Floridians sick from no vaccines, have terrible teeth from non-fluoridated water, or get wounded or killed by assailants using easily accessible firearms. In an average year, 3,108 people die by guns in Florida and 6,358 are wounded. Gun violence costs the Sunshine State $40.3 billion each year, of which $875.9 million is paid by taxpayers.

As someone on MSNBC once put it: "For Republicans, guns are more important than children."

Outside smoking areas make for some of the best intelligence or rumor collection points. So, in NYC a few weeks ago I met an assistant funeral director visiting from Miami. After we became acquainted and exchanged cigarettes, I asked him how many murder victims his funeral parlor buries in a year. This mortician explained to me that as a Haitian-American, he only handles his community and on average he tends to 12 to 15 victims a year. He then stated that for African-Americans, which is handled by a separate assistant funeral director, every year his parlor buries an average 18-25 murder victims annually.

Why does the GOP abhor gun control laws, vaccines, or universal health care? Death is a profitable business.