Honestly, to me, gun control advocates are distracting from the REAL issues that cause the majority of crime in this nation, such as poor education and poverty (IMHO at least).
Those two are one and the same thing -- poor education begets poverty.
But liberals don't like what you said -- because education is the responsibility of
government. Read your state constitution, and I will bet a dollar it contains words to the effect that it is the responsibility of the state to educate the children.
And of all the socialist programs in the country, the Public School system is the closest to Marx' ideal -- the
goverment owns the means of production (the buildings, computers, books, etc.) The
government hires and pays the workers (teachers, administrators, bus drivers, etc.) The
government totally controls the system.
And the system has completely failed.
Now some liberal will jump up and say, "Well
my child's school is okay." And I'll say, "What's your state and district?" And go to the state Report Card site and find that there's another district within a few miles that has an abismal record. I'll find that minority children score far lower than majority children.
And that is the shame of our system -- in the rich, liberal enclaves, the schools aren't so bad. It's in the poor areas that they fail. And the liberals don't care -- they've got
their schools, and the devil with anyone else's kids.
It's a heck of a lot easier to blame guns than it is to admit that the failure of liberal programs is responsible for crime and poverty.