Originally Posted by
gimmick
How is gun related deaths misleading in anyway? Suicides, shootings and accidents in that order. And if you jump of a bridge to your death while holding a gun that doesn't count unless you shoot yourself fatally before hitting the ground. As long as a bullet that's discharged from a gun penetrates your body and is the primary cause of death then that qualifies as a gun related death. Even swallowing a bullet and choking to that doesn't count. It's not really an ambiguous concept.
There is almost a zero percent chance that you will shot at in your lifetime and that includes home invasions by a pack of wild negroes on the prowl in white suburbia. Now do you want to take a wild guess how much owning a gun lowers that chance?
I don't understand what point you're trying to make.
As a regular American who doesn't involve himself with the criminal element (except for rogue online gambling sites), the danger to me from "gun violence" is substantially lower than the danger one could compute mathematically by dividing number of gun deaths per year by number of US citizens. This is because a high percentage of these deaths occur in situations that I would never get myself involved in, and therefore do not affect me.
I'm also not worried about gun deaths from suicide. I know that I'm never going to kill myself, and even if I wanted to do so, I could find countless ways to do so that wouldn't involve a gun.
Bottom line is that I'm happy to have a gun in my home in case anything ever happens. And I would be very upset if the government tried to take that right away from me, and expected me just to trust that all of the criminals will do the right thing and turn in their guns, as well.
It's foolish to say that we have to "do something" about these spree killings, as if there's any reasonable way to prevent them.
The one change I would support doesn't involve gun control, but rather some more resources to be devoted to helping the mentally ill. There has long been the accusation that this is grossly underfunded in the US, and I believe that's probably true. This won't stop all spree killings, as many of these are perpetrated by individuals with no obvious sign of emotional/mental disturbance, but it would at least get to some of these people before they can do harm.