It was far from the perfect piece, but it did in fact not just jump on the guns bad rhetoric. They humanized it reporting the lives lost, which is true and unfortunate. 30 to violence, 60 to suicide...it paints a pretty grim damn picture, especially given that 22 of the suicides per day still continue to represent veterans.

They also dismissed the scary black rifles as anything more dangerous than a baseball bat or a hammer when it comes to homicide stats, which was good. I wish they would have focused down on the social issues of revolving door prisons, recidivism, gangs, and crimes committed by people in the country illegally. These are the numbers that paint the larger picture and the clearer picture of the problem.

It doesn't mean that parolees are evil, or your Guatamalan neighbor is going to shoot you...it does however mean that we have a much larger problem than those "bad ole guns," and the populace at large would rather find Pokemon than pay attention to the shit around them.