It's absolutely necessary if the problem is to be addressed. As you can see from apologists and deniers like T-Bone, certain factions of society will go through all sorts of contortions and outright lies to avoid admitting the unavoidable and factual truth-an extremely small percentage of the population commits a vast majority of the homicides in this country.

This information is valuable whenever we see deflections in the media about "gun violence", police brutality, etc...