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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A child from my daughter's school was murdered on Tuesday.  Just sitting in his apartment, playing video games, shot in the head by a random bullet from gunfire outside his apartment.

His mother, mourning her child right now- that could be me.  That could be you.  We can play pretend, oh I don't live in one of those apartment complexes, that's where all this stuff happens, I live in a "nice" neighborhood, I live on a cul-de-sac, I live in Bethesda, whatever.  The median income in Newtown, where Sandy Hook happened: $127,602.  Who are we kidding?  The HHI y'all love so darn much can't insulate you from this; this can happen anywhere now.

I can't wait anymore, it's time.  This was more than close enough to home for me.  Tell me what to do.  I will follow you, I will follow anyone with a plan.

I'm not going to debate guns.  You can't tell me someone is going to throw a knife into a random child's home and kill them while they eat dinner.  Guns are the problem.  Enough is enough.

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/child-shot-in-prince-georges-county-police-say/2782491/[/quote]

I live in an area that has had a ton of guns forever and shootings, much less shootings that result in death, are exceedingly rare.[/quote]

Same here.

[b]Grew up around guns.  Lots of them, and they were unlocked.

Difference between us as kids and the kids today: we didn’t use guns on our fellow man.   [/b]

Keep your unconstitutional laws to yourself; my rights are NOT negotiable!![/quote]

Let's challenge this idea that guns are not a problems in certain areas with "lots of them."

[img]https://i.imgur.com/QPqG4Tw.jpg[/img]

The states with the highest firearm fatality rates per 100,000 people in 2019:

Alaska
Mississippi
Wyoming
New Mexico
Alabama
Louisiana
Missouri
South Carolina
Arkansas
Montana
Oklahoma
Tennessee
West Virginia

Does this look like a list of urban strongholds to you?

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm 
[/quote]

“Gun deaths” doesn’t represent homicides. Most gun deaths are suicides. [/quote]

Ok.

And?

That's all the more reason to limit access.[/quote]

You’re the one talking about “urban strongholds.” I’m merely correcting your misconception. [/quote]

You actually didn't even prove that "most" gun deaths are suicides.  Please cite your source, or I will ask Jeff to delete.

Regardless, a gun problem is a gun problem, whether it is homicide or "just" suicide.

Perhaps people's lives are expendable to you.  I'd like to push back on that.[/quote]

What? Now DCUM deletes posts that don't "cite a source"? Please, half the posts here would be gone if that was the policy. In any case the stats are readily available, use your Google.

BTW, the 2019 firearm death rate in DC would put us on that list of top states you have (CDC didn't list DC as a state) -- at 18.3/100000 we were higher than West Virginia and about equal to Oklahoma or Tennessee. And that's with very very few gun suicides here. Since the major spike in murders that happened in 2020/21 I think it's likely that DC would be near the very top of that list. Homicides this year look like they will be up about 25% over 2019. If you translate that increase into firearms death rates, and assume that rural states haven't really changed, DC would now be third on the list. (Again likely with few suicides).

Source for DC 2019 firearms death rates: https://efsgv.org/state/district-of-columbia/[/quote]

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