Argument: The real reason for violence/crime/homicide/whatever in America is not the high rate of gun ownership in this country, but the large number of violent, murderous gangs.
Example: "America’s murder rate isn’t the work of the suburban and rural homeowners who shop for guns at sporting goods stores and at gun shows, and whom news shows profile after every shooting, but by the gangs embedded in the urban areas controlled by the Democratic machine." -FrontPage Magazine
Response: Data from the National Youth Gang Survey indicate that from 2007 to 2011, "...gang-related homicides typically accounted for around 13 percent of all homicides annually" (National Gang Center). Other data indicate that the percentage of homicides that are gang-related in the US may be even lower (6.6%) (Frazier et al. 2017). Furthermore, the term "gang-related" itself tends to deflect from the underlying problems that lead to such acts of violence (Younge 2016).
Sources:
Frazier et al. 2017: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29173934
National Gang Center: https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/survey-analysis/measuring-the-extent-of-gang-problems
Younge 2016: https://www.thenation.com/article/americas-refusal-to-control-firearms-is-killing-teens-at-an-absurd-rate/
Further reading: https://www.huffingtonpost.com/evan-defilippis/do-we-have-a-gang-problem_b_5071639.html
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