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A personal note about handgun murders...
My young cousin was killed by a handgun several years ago. During a heated argument his best friend unloaded an entire clip into him. I was a pallbearer at his closed casket funeral. The inanimate object that killed him was of no concern to anyone in the family or any of his friends. No one cried about gun control or stats about gun violence. It wasn't even brought up once. He was dead, it was not relevant.
Day dreaming about firearm bans and a perfect world where criminals and crazy people (our in our case his best friend) don't have access to firearms is exactly that, a dream. We live in reality, guns exist, they are not going anywhere anytime soon and people are going to die because of them and because of many other reasons not associated with firearms, as that graph points out. People die. And when they do, what killed them doesn't really mean a whole lot. You may think it does, but it doesn't. You may be concerned with who killed them and want justice to be served, but once it is that too loses importance. I suppose if justice is never served it could always be a thorn but our family didn't have to deal with that so I wouldn't know for sure.
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