The victim count keeps rising and that ages of the victims keep getting younger and younger.

I can't help but wonder what all of those, "Criminals will always find a way to get a gun." people use, in their heads, to rationalize the harsh realities of gun violence in America.

The mere number of incidents should dispell the outdated rhetoric about "good guys and guns" but given that has yet to sink in as complete fallacy, does make me wonder: how on earth do adults (those with fully formed brains, over the age of 25) reconcile the youth of America, being victims of gun violence, in any capacity other than accidental.

To actual think, let alone believe, that children are criminally minded before they can even drive a car, or more and more, before puberty, is so nonsensical that it's hard to compute why all of those "law abiding citizens" aren't taking to the streets en masses to DEMAND for gun law reforms. To DEMAND safe and sane gun laws immediately. Instead, they scream about 2nd Amendment rights, but don't even understand what the 2nd Amendment guarantees, let alone means and how it's been twisted and mutilated into a caricature of it's Constitutional guarantee.

So here we are. Our children having active shooter drills in school, asking for metal detectors at school entrances, refusing to go to school out of fear of dying before the 3rd grade, avoiding malls, grocery stores, parks, and now apparently gas stations.
Of 28,000 children polled (YouGov 01/15/2023) 86% simply want to live "until they're old." What is "old" in that poll? 24. (Gun violence will kill more children and young adults this year than all other causes of death combined, in America.)

But there's not a gun problem in America. The fastest growing demographic of victims of gun violence are those between the ages of 5 and 23 years. But ya know, they're just baby criminals that can't yet read or do multiplication yet have the wherewithal to purchase (or find) a firearm, learn how it works, and take to the streets.