for the record, it saddens me when i hear of shooting incidents. but the bigger tragedy is people using incidents like these to promote their own personal agendas.
i am all for reducing gun violence, but let's use real numbers:
the ~30000 "gun related deaths per year" number that's bandied about is misleading, and here's why:
about 2/3's of that 30000 are SUICIDES. that brings the HOMICIDE rate down to around 10000.
of those HOMICIDES, about 80% are gang related.
that reduces the number of gun homicides in regular society down to around 2000, call it 3000.
that's only a fraction of the 10000 DUI deaths per year.
the point is that if it's just about safety, then addressing the problems with alcohol would actually produce more bang for the buck. and if you want to reduce homicides, address the issue of gang violence and i suggest researching the correlation between the violence and the drug trade.
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