Deacon923
Scooter Banks
During my surgery residency, I would estimate >95% of shootings were due to black on black crime. Most shootings were related to drugs. Sorry this doesn't fit your narrative but continue...
Not sure where you did your residency, but this is likely true in most big cities. It highlights a few things about gun violence and gun control that I think are compelling:
1. Stopping gun violence is not about stopping high profile gun massacres. They are awful but represent a tiny fraction of deaths by gun.
2. The people who are most militant about the need to possess a gun "for protection" generally live in safe, often rural neighborhoods. The risk of being the victim of violent crime is greatly reduced simply by not engaging in the drug trade or living in drug-infested neighborhoods.
3. The people who most overwhelmingly support gun control are the people who actually have to deal with the results of gun violence on a day to day basis in their neighborhoods and in their families. If the narrative that "more guns make you safer" has any reality, why is it that the people who live closest to crime are the most in favor of gun control?
4. It is likely that all, or almost all, of the gunshot wounds you treated in your residency were caused by guns that were originally purchased perfectly legally. Guns end up in the hands of a criminal or maniac through gift, theft, or unregistered sale. Unlike drugs or booze, guns and ammo are not items that can be grown out of the ground or easily manufactured in a basement. Limiting gun violence by criminals and maniacs means restricting the sale of guns, period.