>More than 33, 000 Americans are killed by guns each year
Broken down, about 21,000 were Suicides and 11,000 are Assault/Homicides, the rest (about 1k) are lawful use of force, police action, or accidents (about 505) according to the CDC in 2013 (cdc.gov/nchs/data/nvsr/nvsr64/nvsr64_02.pdf table 10)
Gun control doesn't lower suicides. It lowers suicide by gun, but not suicides overall. Other methods are taken, look at Japan and Australia.
There isn't much you can do about Police Action or Accidents. People will continue to be stupid
And if you look at homicides, people have already said it. About 80% of that according to the FBI is Gang Related violence or black-on-black crime.
So if you want to really lower gun deaths, maybe take a look at the mental healthcare system and maybe look at what works and doesn't work for the black communities (years of Democrat rule and we still have places that are major slums), not if legal gun owners can have certain features or not (BTW only ~100 of those 11k homicides were with "assault rifles")
> commonsense reforms to keep guns away from terrorists, domestic abusers, and other violent criminals
Already illegal for those people to own firearms Hilldawg.
>comprehensive background checks
Only way that is enforceable is through a registration of all firearms. Which, as evidenced by Washington state where people disobeyed RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE CAPITAL by handing their rifle to someone else, would require enormous oversight and spending to implement, much less continually enforce.
Just... I fucking hate these talking points they throw out. This exact some conversation is had time, and time, and fucking time again after the latest "ebil white male shoots black babies muh feels im crying on tv ban all guns" and you can watch as Gun Controllers have to continually rephrase where the Gun Owners have to repeat these over and over.
I wish politics wasn't such a shitshow I'd love to get involved further.