WOW: Guns to surpass car accidents as leading cause of deaths among young people

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118. I don't mean to blow your mind.

I see much that blows my mind on the subject as well.

Yes, I think some here, and others elsewhere in the gun-control push, use tragedies like Newtown to demonstrate the problem of gun violence, but almost never, if ever, mention the true reality of most of the gun violence problem. I see it everyday here. Gun violence is almost always talked of in terms of mass shootings. If you dig up the number of OPs on gun violence, and then find the percentage of those talking about the reality that gang violence makes up most of the gun violence in the US, my guess is that those mentioning gang violence would be in the single percentage points, possibly less than one percent. Despite it being the source for most of the gun homicide in the country.

That blows my mind. People are all ready to ban guns or ban ammo or make it next to impossible to own a firearm - all ready with the solutions to a problem they apparently refuse to acknowledge. I'm talking about the "anti-gun" side of the issue. You saw upthread a poster mention the gang-violence component and he got jumped on by several posters. It isn't the "pro-gun" side doing that piling on. It isn't the "pro-gun" side framing the argument here.

Of course all homicide is bad. If laws would stop homicide, we wouldn't have it. There are plenty of laws against homicide. It hasn't stopped. Disarming me and my neighbors won't stop it either. The solution to gun homicide in the US cannot be found until the problem is examined and defined and evaluated honestly.

Much discussion to be had on this topic. I wish DU had a place for those who wanted to have an open and honest discussion free of insults and the like. Maybe one forum. The Decorum Forum. DF. The one moderated forum, where hot topic issues could be discussed freely and respectfully, and where violaters who attack and insult are met with severe penalties, including being banned from that particular forum.

I may have a strong urge to call out bs when I perceive it, but I hope that isn't a banning offense. I've been here for some time now, and I like the place.