When we talk about firearms crime, there is a LOT of misinformation and ... outright lies told by the gun grabbing left.
For the left, gun control is a means to an end, a way to gain power. Not a way to save lives as they would have you believe and it never was. This is one of the reasons their programs fail. They don't really want to stop shootings but rather use them to retain power and expand upon it by spreading fear and divisiveness. This is just one of the ways they constantly ratchet up levels of legislation, in layer upon layer, in a despotic attempt to intrude upon and control every facet of your miserable little lives.
Here are the facts that they choose to ignore. They are also the facts that they don't want you to know or analyze.
There are approximately 120,000,000 gun owners in the US. They are the majority of voting adults.
53% of all shootings are by black men under 30. So, 3% of the US population does more than 1/2 the killing. 83% of all shootings are gang and drug-related.
Only about 7% of all shootings are from a rifle or shotgun and less than 40% of that 7% involve Modern Sporting Rifles (what the anti-gun crowd likes to erroneously call "assault weapons".)
The U.S. ranks 11th in mass shootings for industrialized nations. 50% of the counties in the US will not have a murder within their boundary in any given year. 2% of the counties had 53% of all the murders in the U.S. Study the demographics and socioeconomic situation and you correlate as to why.
Both Japan and Korea have much higher suicide rates than the US. Both nations virtually ban private gun ownership. 75% of all gun deaths are attributed to suicide. Guns are not the cause, just the means.
U.S. Numbers averaged from the FBI Uniform Crime Reports.
Total Number of gun deaths per year: 38,000
Suicides: 28,500
Gang and Drug: 7,885
Remaining: 1,615
If not for gangs and drugs, the number of murders by guns is below 1,700 in a country of 330,000,000 people. Remove the gangs and drugs, and the US is one of the SAFEST countries in the world.
Now this does not diminish a tragedy of when some lunatic comes unglued and goes on a killing spree but it does give clarity and perspective to the actual problem which is not guns but rather gang and drug related violence.
These numbers and facts are all there in the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, which BTW should be the only information we should be using to discuss this issue. All other information that does not quote or reflect the FBI statistics should be considered tainted.
BTW, hello to everyone as it has been awhile since I have been around. I do occassionaly view this place but find little time to participate. Things may be changing in the future and I would like to find myself here more, but like everything in life, there are no guarantees.