More guns does not mean more gun deaths, it doesn’t correlate. States with high rates of gun ownership don’t nesisarally have high violence rates. Accident rates have been demonstrated to go way down with actual gun safety instruction (gun control groups have been trying to coopt ‘gun safety’ because gun control has high negative ratings in polling). Suicides don’t correlate with gun ownership internationally, we have a general suicide problem. It doesn’t matter if someone takes their life with a gun or overdosing with pills, we need to better help for people in crisis & to end the ableism against people who suffer from metal illness. And where violence does correlate is communities that have been marginalized for generations socially, economically, in the educational, & ‘justice’ system.

Gun control is really just a way for the power elites in society to avoid having to actually deal with the actual underlying causes of violence. Also the prison industrial complex needs more laws to fill prisons as support for pot legalization builds.