Nationwide A March For Our Lives

[Brian37]

Until we can get better data..which we've just made it possible to directly collect again - let's assume that some number of gun deaths more than 3 but less than 4 out of every 10 are the kinds of guns deaths that we could..at least conceptually, prevent..directly, with gun legislation.  This was the state of affairs when we could last collect the data.  This excludes the 6 suicides on the (maybe shaky) rationale that they'd find a way to kill themselves one way or another.   

It seems to me that if we're using the 30k number as a base point (for who knows why)....we're talking about 11, 790 potentially preventable gun deaths.  I'd say that any proposal that only gets us 5k lower is less than half as effective as it could be and needs to be..but vastly more effective than one which doesn't prevent any of them.  I don't see why we have to accept a single gun death in order to have a our rights.  Rights are not a suicide or murder pact.  We'll never be rid of gun death - even if we banned guns..but I think we can still shoot for better than half effective.  If I saw a guy on a range that hit his target about as often as a coin landed on heads I sure as shit wouldn't trust him to own a gun, lol.

WE DO HAVE THE DATA!

Firearm injuries and deaths ARE FAR MORE LIKELY to happen in the home or neighborhood with someone the victim knows, regardless of legality of purchase. The protecting yourself from a complete stranger, while it does happen, IS NOT THE MAJORITY.

It still amounts to a flooded market and ease of access issue REGARDLESS OF LEGALITY OF PURCHASE.

Just like molestation and rape of a child or adult is far more likely to happen with someone the victim knows.