http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2013/01/european-murder-rates-compared-to.html
The word is getting out. Homicide is cultural.
“Gun violence” is a propaganda metric. “Hospital Deaths” make as much sense. You can eliminate most “Hospital Deaths” by banning hospitals (no doubt a few underground hospitals will survive) but the overall death rate will go up.
--incidentally , the Wall Street Journal apparently had an editorial on the subject of black societal disfunction as the root cause of "crime" in urban areas a week or so ago--surprising that there hasn't been more uproar about that---
Only among those with powers of deductive reasoning and a desire for truth over ideology. None of which applies to the left.
I gave that article to my New Deal era, anti gun, liberal uncle. He read it and wrote back that yes, I had indeed made my point. 95% of us [crazy]redneck gun owners were not the gun violence problem.
Fast forward 3 months later. He is again forwarding me stuff just like this pantload of socialist propaganda. He has completely reverted.
You can't change these people. That's because (IMO) deep down the reason they are against gun ownership has nothing to do with gun crime. It is because they know that we know that the Constitutionally enumerated right to own guns has nothing to do with self defense against crime or for hunting. They can't bear the fact that we Constitutionalists know firearms are our defense against tyranny. And they can't admit, even to themselves, that they are in favor of tyranny. That they believe in statism and despotic government. The ability of the hoi polloi to resist this infuriates and terrifies them.
hoi polloi
noun
derogatory
the masses; the common people.
"avoid mixing with the hoi polloi"
synonyms: masses, common people, populace, public, multitude, rank and file, lower order(s), plebeians, proletariat;