The truth, although people increasingly don't want to believe it.
An oft-repeated, but false, dichotomy. Despite what you see in the movies, the world isn't divided neatly between two classes of people, "Good, Law-Abiding Citizens" and "Outlaws". Most of the gun deaths Fineman is talking about are like the guy who pulls out a gun in after a drunken fight over a woman, the three year old that accidentally shoots herself, the estranged husband that offs his whole family and then himself, the hunter that accidentally puts a bullet through an Amish girl a mile away, the Navy SEAL that shoots himself in the head showing off to his girlfriend, the young woman who accidentally shoots herself rummaging through her purse, the brother who shoots his sister in a fit of jealously and then collapses sobbing in remorse... and other such crap. Previously law-abiding citizens, for the most part, who simply go "postal", or make a mistake. It's common sense why the statistics are the way they are actually... the more guns lying around, the more likely someone is to get shot. The more baseball bats lying around, the more likely someone is going to hit by one. The most elementary logic, yet so politicized, because guns make it so much easier to kill.
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