Nevada Editorial: Residents must lead the way on action against gun violence

[Joe Link]

April 1 — Marcus Thomas Jr., age 3 1/2 weeks, is shot and killed when a gunman sprays his parents' car with bullets outside a North Las Vegas apartment building.

April 25 — A 4-month-old is struck in the hand by a bullet fired through the wall of an apartment near the Las Vegas Strip.

June 2 — A 2-year-old is injured at an apartment complex near UNLV after an argument between two men leads to gunfire.

In Las Vegas and across the U.S., children are paying in blood for the nation's refusal to control firearms and reduce gun violence.

A study last month in the journal Pediatrics showed that guns were the third-leading cause of death among children, ahead of heart disease, asthma and pneumonia and behind only motor-vehicle accidents and injury-related deaths. Nearly 1,300 people under 18 are killed by guns each year, and 5,790 are treated for gunshots, the study found, meaning that guns are responsible for more than 1 in 10 deaths of children and adolescents in the U.S.

The slaughter of children is a national disgrace, one for which the National Rifle Association and its horde of gun-rights extremists deserve the bulk of the blame.

By treating any attempt to deal with gun violence like an existential threat to Americans' freedom, the gun lobby has helped create a glut of firearms while attacking measures designed to help keep guns out of the wrong hands.

As a result, guns are everywhere — estimates say there are more guns than Americans in this country — and are shamefully easy to obtain.

Residents must lead the way on action against gun violence

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[MadDuner]

One group of our citizens has a problem with violence in general. Knives, guns, bats, cars, whatever they can find. Penalizing the rest of the country's citizens for their behavior is like castrating every male in the country because one guy 3 states over can't keep it in his pants.

If they want to talk about numbers....
How many killed or injured in auto accidents?
How many killed or injured by medical mistakes?
What happens to those gun violence numbers if you simply sift the data by city or gang affiliations?

When they LOOK at the data, they'll naturally find that legal gun owners are NOT the problem at all. But then admitting that would blow their agenda right out of the water.