Online Legal Ed. In the last few years, notably again in the last two weeks, high profile incidents of gun violence have been in the forefront of the media. Well, I think that the fact that these events lead people to focus on the problem of gun violence is helpful because the fact is that every day there are a tremendous amount of casualties from guns. Everyday more than eleven kids are killed with guns and many more are injured.
Most people ignore that fact and the media ignores that fact.
Sometimes it takes an incident such as Columbine, where you have basically an ordinary death toll for young people, as horrible as that sounds, but since it took place in one location, in a high profile event, it focused national attention on this ongoing problem. And people really need to focus on it and get angry about it, and get willing to do something about it. Well, I'm sure that the NRA and others like them will argue that. No, it doesn't undermine it. I mean, for one thing the fact is that Hawaii has very low violent crime rates.