At least they recognize it's not going to be that simple.
http://nbcpolitics.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/12/18/15977143-gun-control-offers-no-cure-all-in-america?lite
Still slanted.
How does the number of murders committed with firearms compare to the number of suicides committed with firearms?
According to the National Center for Health Statistics, in 2011 there were 19,766 suicides committed with firearms and 11,101 homicides committed with firearms.
The question asked how many "murders." The statistic was "homicides." A police officer shooting an armed felon is a "homicide." So is a shooting in self defense. We have no way of knowing how many of the homicides in their statistic were justified homicides, as opposed to murders.
At risk of being morbid, I'll just point out that the Petit home invasion in Cheshire, CT, a few years ago resulted in the "homicides" of the mother and two teen-aged daughters. No guns involved. The bad guys beat the father with a baseball bat, raped and then strangled the mother, and killed the two daughters by dousing the house with gasoline and dropping a match on their way out.
Where's the rush to ban or register baseball bats and gasoline cans?
On May 18,1927, in Bath Township, Michigan, 45 people (mostly students) were killed and 58 were wounded when a former member of the school board detonated three (3) bombs. The shooters at Columbine in 1999 had set two 20-pound propane bombs. Their original plan had been to blow up the building, then to shoot anyone who survived the bombs. Mercifully, the bombs failed to explode. But we can't forget that the bombs were the primary intended weapon and, if they had gone off as planned, the death toll would likely have been in the hundreds.
How do we harden our schools against bombs? It can't happen when the "We have to do
something" crowd is maniacally focused on guns.