Quote (RiskOfFire @ Jun 29 2017 08:10pm)
It's easier to kill someone with a car than with a gun, your reasoning is flawed. I'll answer it anyway. When gangmembers, drug dealers, and career criminals (the extreme majority of murderers) decide to kill, the ease of it provided by a firearm is irrelevant, they would merely choose another method without the gun, therefor banning guns will not signifigantly reduce violence. It will only reduce your irrelevant and deceitful "gun violence" statistic... and even then it wouldnt because banning guns will not prevent that type of people from obtaining them.
It's not easier to kill somebody with a car. You can't bring a car into a house. It's pretty clear you're emotionally compromised since you keep saying things like this that are out of touch with reality.
Gang violence accounts for a large percentage, but not all of gun violence. I agree that in our current system gun regulations wouldn't affect that portion of homicides. We'd need a giant buyback and confiscation scheme to happen.
I did some quick googling and found
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So, do we have a gang problem or a gun problem? Data collected by the National Gang Center, the government agency responsible for cataloging gang violence, makes clear that it’s the latter. There were 1,824 gang-related killings in 2011. This total includes deaths by means other than a gun. The Bureau of Justice Statistics finds this number to be even lower, identifying a little more than 1,000 gang-related homicides in 2008. In comparison, there were 11,101 homicides and 19,766 suicides committed with firearms in 2011.
So your assertion that the biggest issue is gang violence done with guns is, as far as I can tell, just incorrect. I'm open to being corrected though if you have better data.