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‘Once you eliminate suicides and gang-bangers, the so-called epidemic of ‘gun violence’ turns out to be not much at all’

February 18, 2014 By Kathy Shaidle

(As I’ve been saying…)

And now here’s Michael Walsh, who helpfully links to The Truth About Guns:

According to the CDC, the number of firearms related fatalities for “children” has been steadily falling over the last two decades even without more restrictive gun control laws. I put children in quotation marks because, while some people consider 24 year old people to still be children, my cut-off is the age at which the state lets you operate a 2-ton moving death machine unsupervised in public (16).

The reason that this age bracket is used by gun control advocacy groups, as I outlined in this article, is that this is the age range in which most gang related crime is committed. Some estimates put the percentage of gang related murders in the United States at around 80%, indicating that the issue isn’t the availability of guns but the prevalence of gangs and the related violence.

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