We probably had more deaths due to traffic accidents as well. Should we declare war on traffic accidents? Or just traffic? Maybe reduce the speed limit to 25...to save the children.
Irrelevant. Logic doesn't play into the message.
My tinfoil hat is in place now, possibly rightly so. Everywhere I'm looking has "journalists" and others (and I don't mean Politico or other rinky dinks - the big names) reciting this "66 times" number using almost the exact same wording. This is absolutely coordinated.