guns have nothing to do with gun violence
“Gun Violence” is Orwellian propaganda. The term is Orwellian in two ways. It conflates violence with evil. This has been a successful ploy of the left. Violence is neutral, like gravity. It can be used for good or evil. Violence is sometimes necessary.
“Gun Violence” separates violence with guns from all other violence, as if violence with guns is somehow more evil and important than other violence. It creates a false category that is exploited politically. A victim killed with poison, or explosives, or arson, or a machete, is just as dead as a victim killed with a gun.
Legal restrictions on guns may create more victims. This can happen by limiting defensive options, or by pushing malefactors to switch to other technologies, such as automobiles, poison, explosives, or arson. If the policy does not reduce the total number of victims, it fails, even from the limited perspective of pragmatism.
The unstated assumptions of the Orwellian term “gun violence” are to separate violent acts in which guns are involved from all other violence, and that violence is always evil. Both assumptions create the basis for infringements on the Second Amendment.
Agreed. Given a choice between gun violence when attacked by a mugger/rapist and the violence of pure muscle (where the attacker can usually figure out in advance that he/they will win), I’ll take gun violence every time.