last I looked into this, over 50% of gun related deaths in the US are suicides

To pretend that young girls aren't affected by hearing about the frequent school/mass shootings in the US is pretty ridiculous. That affects them far more than gang violence in "a few neighborhoods of a few cities"-- it's something that they relate to directly, whether someone they know has been shot at in an educational setting or not. Spare us the firearm fundamentalist talking points.

Edit: Also, gun violence isn't rampant in the US? Compared to what? Certainly rampant compared to any peer society.

And yet there are charts of just how much of either were done via gun courtesy of the FBI and other crime statistics logging entities in the US.

It's pretty clear we have a gun problem and for a long time.