When they call it "gun violence", it's an attempt to pass the blame onto the tool instead of the user. If we pushed a magic button and made all guns disappear, then we'd have nutters attacking schools with crossbows, and concerned-sounding soccer moms whining about "crossbow violence"

This debate is about the right to use force for self defense, not guns. Given free reign, these people would ban anything marketable as a weapon, censor any speech or publication that promotes self defense (because it "glorifies violence! oh no!", even ban martial arts training, all to make a world where they wouldn't fear others flipping out and injuring them. Just look how close they are to all that in the UK.

And why do they fear others? Because going postal is what many of THEM would do if they carried weapons. These are the hysterical people who scream at you in the parking lot, flip you off on I-95, and yell at their kids in the checkout line. They can't control their temper, so they assume no one else can either and therefore wish to disarm the rest of us.

It won't work, of course. A determined man with a metal pipe in a subway car is no better than one with a pistol.