text: You are very accurate.  But yet, the wording is key.  "...Research to Reduce the Threat..."; meaning, it hasn't been completed, there are no end state results, and only focuses on the "threat".  That "threat" exists today in spite of the hand wringing.  That "threat" existed way before any and all "comprehensive" or "common sense" efforts re: this issue.  The statistics you cited in your comment did nothing to stop the dickhead that shot people.  And it won't stop any criminal from committing a crime in the future.  The initiative you support will make our communities less safe.  The inherent right to protect oneself through the use of defensive tools (not just firearms) "shall not be infringed".
  
  If a nation or a state does not keep accurate records of how people died, then all the statistical analysis re: # of gun related deaths is inaccurate.  The statistic you cite relies on data provided.  Did the DRC submit accurate info to whoever does this research?  I doubt it.  Did Yemen?