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Gun violence prevention advocates have done a disservice to everyone by failing to accurately describe the state’s role in creating interpersonal gun violence. 
First gun violence prevention is overrun with white people who are far too concerned with preserving white gun rights. Their family and social relationships prevent them from saying the obvious: cheap & ubiquitous handguns drive the murder rate
The choice to have cheap & ubiquitous handguns is a state level choice. It is a government choice. It is most definitely not the policy preference of Black Americans but they disproportionately pay the price for the cheap & ubiquitous handgun policy and that is by design
Don’t believe me? The research has been done. 90s gun violence in LA/NYC/DC & the South was driven by cheap handguns, not crack. Excellent reporting by @AlexYablon here https://www.thetrace.org/2018/08/guns-supply-shock-crack-epidemic-murder-rates/
And yet, white ppl deeply invested in gun violence prevention often won’t tell you this. They’re wedded to NRA ideology of keeping guns away from bad guys, instead of acknowledging that gun violence is merely a convergence of anger/despair and easy gun access.
Most gun violence prevention policies do little to address the problem of cheap & ubiquitous handguns. Some do. For example, one handgun a month in VA, drives up the price of trafficking to NY, where handguns are by state policy more expensive
We could directly drive up the price of handguns by taxing guns & ammo and double bonus use the funds to provide services to victims of gun violence but instead we’re endlessly focused on separating “good” gun owners from “bad” gun owners, instead of just admitting...
There’s no good guy with a gun! Your dad isn’t a good guy with a gun, sorry! He’s just another white gun with a gun upping his risk of suicide and domestic violence
Dear white ladies of GVP, your husband isn’t a good guy with a gun, he’s just another white guy upping his risk of suicide and family violence, sorry! And if he was a good guy, he’d melt his handguns and wouldn’t keep ammunition in the house.
GVP failure to describe the state’s role in a racist & misogynistic policy of cheap & ubiquitous handguns, allows the ideology of policing as a successful response to gun violence to persist, even though policing has been shown to be an inadequate and racist resp to gun violence
Defunding the police and gun violence prevention are completely compatible and synergistic goals, if GVP advocates would just start telling the real story of interpersonal gun violence in America
