And therein lies the rub:<p>NOBODY on the gun-control side of things care much about the VAST majority of gun deaths; namely, gang-violence or drug-related shootings.  By far, these are the largest component of murders by gun and yet the thing that really motivates Sally Housewife to get politically involved is a shooting involving &quot;good people.&quot;<p>MOST gun deaths are suicides.  MOST gun murders are committed with handguns.  Please explain to me how favorite talking-points like &quot;we need to restrict assault weapons&quot; or &quot;we need to restrict magazine capacity&quot; or &quot;we need to expand background checks&quot; do anything to tackle the real meat of the problem.  HINT: they don&#x27;t.<p>The problem of gun violence is simply a sub-type of the problem of VIOLENCE.  If we could figure out how to completely eliminate violence, we&#x27;d have done it by now.  My suspicion is that we&#x27;re asking for the police&#x2F;government to do something that is impossible: keep all the bad people away from me.  if only it were so simple.