You claim such. Yet you stubbornly refuse to accept that you are addressing an individual who is devoid of anger, and who is not prone to other emotional responses. You are addressing one who argues nothing but cold, hard, logical facts, and absolutely nothing else. You claim that such is impossible, despite claiming that nothing is impossible. If nothing is impossible, that means it is a statement of fact that one can be devoid of anger. By your own admission, the only acceptable number of firearm-related deaths is absolutely zero. Even if the united states could go from experiencing approximately thirty thousand firearm-related homicides and suicides per year, to less than twenty a year, it would do nothing to change the fact that the number would still remain unacceptably high, meaning that all of its efforts and investments have been for nothing. So the question must be asked. Is it a good thing if a nation has an unacceptably high number of firearm-related deaths? Embarrassment is devoid of logic and possesses no relevance to the discussion.
But, we're not talking about the country level because to do so is foolish to do so. Ultimately the statistical analysis if done correctly will show that the majority of gun crime will occur within Democratic/Black/minority zip codes/neighborhoods. BUT update Baltimore: There's been a killing per day for a total of 3 with 4 wounded. B-more remains the most deadly city per shooting. All of this in DEMOCRATIC city with strict gun control.