Also, a large portion of the gun violence attached to pistols (other than convenience) are suicides. They all get rolled into the same umbrella of "gun violence" and it's difficult to parce out the self inflicted violence from the violence inflicted upon others.

Suicide isn't violence and its ableist to claim otherwise, that statistic mangling needs to stop.

If you dig in, only 2700 homicides a year (including lawful shootings by LEOs) are comitted with firearms, and its dropping due to means other than gun control.

Isn't suicide inherently violent due to the intent to cause permanent harm to oneself?

>its ableist to claim otherwise I don't understand what you mean by this, can you explain?

Its ableist to say that someone's choice to exercise free will is somehow coerced or violent because they suffer from depression and/or pain.

I certainly don't like suicide but I don't get to make that choice for other people.

There should be a newline between "otherwise" and "I", but I don't have enough points to edit.

Police killed 992 people with guns in 2018 - ~37%