Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Gun Violence Is a Full-Blown National Crisis [View all]EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)That's not true.
A huge number of gun deaths are suicides and any mental health professional will tell you that taking away guns will DRASTICALLY lower that number almost instantly.
Second, another source of gun violence is domestic violence. And that's certainly NOT all about the gangs.
Third, accidental gun death and injury - and that's thousands of kids a decade - would drop dramatically.
I know you probably don't care about the hundreds thousand plus people that would save in a decade but I do.
Finally, if the only people that had guns were gangs, and no legal guns could be purchased, the number of actual guns in the hands of criminals would collapse relatively quickly. Obviously. Right now buying an illegal gun is relatively trivial, because there's 300,000,000 guns in circulation. Lower that number to even 150,000,000 in 10 years and so so so much violence - especially accidents and suicides - would disappear.
But I know I know. Ya gotta have yer gunz.