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They are applying a medical germ theory of disease (gun as germ) to a criminological problem of actors with motive, opportunity and means (gun as means) when illegal acquisition of guns or substitution of means is easy. You can'y have polio without the polio virus; therefore, you can't have gun violence without guns. Reductio ad absurdem. Violence fits the medical example of immune system failure better than germ theory. 2004 a man killed a woman in the boarding house one block from my apartment and was caught in 2006 after murdering a couple with a baseball bat in their home. He had more in common with the other local murderers of 2004-2006 including a few gun murderers than the murderers had with the vast majority of owners of knives, baseball bats or guns.
This is a long going crusade, since the 1990s; gun-as-germ and eradication advocacy:
Katherine Christoffel, M.D.: "Guns are a virus that must be eradicated.... Get rid of the guns, get rid of the bullets, and you get rid of the deaths." in Janice Somerville, "Gun Control as Immunization," American Medical News, January 3, 1994, p. 9.
Patrick O'Carroll, Acting Section Head of the Division of Injury Control, Centers for Disease Control: "We’re going to systematically build a case that owning firearms causes deaths. We’re doing the most we can do, given the political realities."
They started with the conclusion, and do research to justify their conclusion; now they are being bankrolled by Michael Bloomberg.
About a year ago there was a double murder attempt at a 7-Eleven around the corner from me. One of the victims did die. No gun was used, the weapon was a knife.