What a straw man. One that only the least intelligent couldn't knock down.
First-There are 50-80 million gun owners in this country. There are VASTLY more gun owners with guns THAT DON'T commit murders than do. So GUNS themselves aren't the issue.
Second-There are millions of poor people in this country who DON'T commit crimes. IF income inequality was the cause, WHY DON'T these people commit crimes also?
Third-IF poverty WERE the cause of crime, then what is the cause of crime amongst middle to wealthy people?
Leftist refuse to believe that morals have an outcome on society.
Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other." John Adams
That’s pretty much the conclusion the author had. He quoted Adams also.
Estimates are 50-80 million gun owners in America.
Hmm-—wonder how many guns each gun owner owns?
I would say that basically, we are a well-armed society, and in the main, we don’t hear a lot about legal gun owners getting in gun fights.
How many “illegal” guns are owned is anyone’s guess-—but it’s because of them, the gangs, and so forth, that it behooves the rest of us to be armed....to say nothing of an over-bearing government.