11 facts about gun violence in the United States

[Straw Man]

38. C'mon now.

Leave those goalposts be. You're telling me how many deaths occurred in sanctioned fights. Can you tell me how many people were killed in streetfights by assailants that had some martial arts training?

Despite your persistent efforts to put words in my mouth, I never said the number of deaths was comparable. What I said is that the potential exists, and you are abetting it by providing your children with that training. Yes, it is in a controlled environment, and yes, martial arts training offers much more than a means for delivering violent injury and death. The same is true for firearms training.

I teach firearms safety courses. We teach that securing a gun is fundamental. You can make safe storage a law, but you can't force people to adhere to it. The best you can do is educate them.

You deride the "ridiculous gun culture" in this country, but you base your characterization on YouTube videos? Hardly empirical. I can find plenty of YouTube videos of people doing stupid and dangerous things with motor vehicles, power tools, and alcohol. I don't advocate bans on any of those things.

Where is this "vast army of morons" to which you refer. I am in shooting environments on a weekly basis, and I don't see them. The behavior you describe doesn't come from the "gun culture" as I know it. It comes from people whose only exposure to firearms is what they see on television and in movies: example after example of poor and unsafe gun-handling, technical inaccuracies, and outright lies.