"More Americans have been killed by guns in the past 50 years than in all of the wars"

I am sure that gun nuts all over feel that those numbers are a small price to pay for their right to kill. Their right to kill is much more important than all those who have died right to life.

The others at the link are nice too. You should make this an OP.

this chart makes it look like open carry is legal in all but 4 states. Is that right?

I know open carry was legal here in NC long before the concealed carry law was passed. Never really was much of an issue.

You still see it, but since people gained the option of concealed carry most have moved in that direction.

I'm sure they'd have one to lend you.

The bigger mental health issue, and the one that we can control, is the denial of people who can have knowledge of these statistics and still promote weapons for the public. That's emotional greed to the point of being mentally unhealthy .

Something like 85% of gun violence involves handguns yet there is never any push to regulate the most popular choice in violent gun crimes. Why is that?

Handguns are common, and in common usage. It's much harder to demonize an object that a voter has at home.

Attacking assault weapons is easy politician fodder, and produces much better sound bites that are going to alienate a much smaller set of voters.

And many, many gun control advocates have handguns, many also have concealed carry licenses and/or for the wealthy security that carries handguns. So banning them isn't what they want...