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Using Government Power to force people to do things often has unexpected consequences. Since Black Teens are the single largest group effected by Firearm Homicides, pages 5 and 8, and are almost certainly included in this study as children, that means The Police are going to have to go into Black homes to "force" these common sense precautions.
Uhhhh....I see some problems here.
It's too easy, especially online, to have an image of "2A people" as older white males but the reality is pretty different. Yes 36% of Whites reporting owning a firearm but so do 24% of Blacks and 15% of Latinos.
That is literally 10s of millions of non-white gun owners and as you can see on page 10 in the Johns Hopkins study data the problem of gun violence is massively skewed towards non-whites.
Yes every gun owner needs to take appropriate measures to secure their firearms but how in the hell do you "force" that without ending up in very problematic situations?
Thanks for proving my point.
Yep, but I did it with that official statics and impeccable logic not hand-waving vagueness.
I also noticed that you didn't answer my question.
That's how you proved my point.
Millions and millions of 'responsible gun owners' donating to hundreds of politicians, and yet they can't come up with anything like a plan to stop even one kid from getting shot.