The other issue is there are ~32k gun deaths each year in this country.  If you listen to the spin, you'd think 32k are dying in mass shootings.  The reality is though that isnt true.  20k of those are suicides, 8-9k are inner city urban violence, another 1k are just accidents, etc... and when you get down to it, there arent that many actual non-urban violence murders used by guns.

 

Now obviously 20k people killing themselves with guns is a serious issue.  And clearly guns are a much more efficient way to kill oneself than say overdosing.  On the otherhand our suicide rate isnt unusually high. In fact we're right on par with some European countries and way behind the likes of a place like Japan which has very strict gun laws.  Trying to fix gun related suicides requires a much more indepth analysis than just "eliminating guns" but nobody wants to actually talk about mental health when it comes to guns.

 

Urban violence is it's own problem.  And I'm sure many would agree guns aren't the root cause of inner city poverty.  And fixing those socioeconomic issues would probably fix a lot of those gun statistics without even touching gun laws.  But obviously fixing inner city issues is a whole other sensitive topic.

 

I actually dont have a problem putting in some more common sense and restrictive gun laws, but not sure they would make a real dent in the total number of deaths in this country.  And lets be honest, if you dont own a gun and dont hang out in the hood at 2 in the morning, the odds of you dying from a gun are almost nothing.  

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