For comparison:

[krispos42]

1. I've noted this several times

That our non-gun homicide rate is higher than various European countries' TOTAL homicide rate.

We have inherent, persistent social problems that cannot even start to be solved with Republicans running things, yet us Democrats choose an alleged solution to the problem that a) won't work, and b) keeps us out of power because it motives gun owners more than non-gun-owners.

And your assumption is that every gun homicide avoided is a homicide avoided; when we know that's not true.

Maybe, if the gun-control people are right, then every two or three for gun homicides avoided translates into a single non-gun homicide. That still means our rates are significantly higher than the European countries.

We need to move more towards European, Canadian, Japanese, and Taiwanese style social programs. In our own way, of course, but we need to get off our asses.