Brady Campaign on the pathology of gun violence with a snazzy presentation:

3:45 – THE GUN SHOW LOOPHOLE!

So basically criminals and people with mental health issues are the problem, which we already knew.

7:19 – Preventing (the criminal’s having guns and murdering people with them) problem is, and I quote “straight forward as keeping guns out of criminal and dangerous hands, which points us to some straight forward solutions.”

Here are their SIMPLE solutions to prevent criminals having guns:

1. New policy in Washington like expanding background checks etc… –  YAWWWWWWWWWWNNNN so in other words more laws criminals won’t follow?  Cool story bro.
2. Legal action!  – Oh noes, crime guns from 1% of gun dealers.  Sure that might be a problem but these guys can still easily get a gun from numerous other places.
3. hahah “technology”.  *tell me more meme*

Now they talk about the 300 million guns owned by law abiding citizens.  Suicide (2/3 of all gun deaths), and accidents (negligence). Their solution to this part of the problem is marketing (guns are bad and dangerous) because it worked so well with smoking (did it though?) and drinking and driving, and of course “technology” again is another solution.

It really is pure gold that smoking, obesity, and alcoholism continue to kill more people than guns, but everyone is like “meh, light my cigarette pass me the fries and get me a cold beer” and the media isn’t freaking out about that on a daily basis like they are about guns.  It’s definitely because getting shot is a lot more bloody and dramatic and quick than those other three, therefore viewers love that stuff and the media can sell more advertising etc…

Thoughts? Smart guns for everyone?! :P