I'm starting to believe that much of the gun debate is about something else than guns.

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4. The US has an obesity problem with guns.

Consider that we are 5 percent of the world's population but own half the world's gun. Put it simply, we're fat with guns.

We are a gun culture. No doubt about it. Look at all the gun shows and the mass hysteria to register guns since Sandy Hook. 2.7 million. WTF? There's also been over 400 gun deaths since Sandy Hook.

So think of it this way. The US has an obesity problem with guns. With obesity comes many physical problems. Some are not fatal but others are. We need to trim down and change our behavior.

Trimming down does work. It's a proven fact. In the DC area gun homicides have gone down in 2012 due to a number of factors including the confiscation of thousands of guns in addition to curbing gang violence.

Along with the trimming down goes behavior changes. It takes both to reduce the weight of gun deaths.