Reply #107: And most of those shootings had some link to drugs and/or gangs

[RamboLiberal]

And poverty, poor educations, hopelessness, a culture of crime, etc. Maybe if we eliminate these problems we'd get a handle on the violence. If you banned guns the criminals would still find a way to have guns. Look at Mexico for instance.

"Well I mean there are a number of things that go into the homicide rate," Mayor John Street. "There... this is... this is a social problem."

One major social condition is poverty, reports Solorzano. Philadelphia's poverty rate is the highest of any major U.S. city. And Philadelphia is overwhelmed with illegal weapons.

"Now we have youngsters as young as 13, 14, 15 with Tech nines and Mac tens, and semi-automatics," said Abraham.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/01/eveningnews/main2635629.shtml

I know a couple of hundred legal gun owners, most who carry daily, and not a damn one has been shot or murdered or shot someone else. A few have probably drawn their gun in self-defense. Maybe I should start my own study.