The point is valid but this is sort of a weak way to present it. About 85% of murderers are prior convicted felons and handguns outnumber rifles in murders at a 20:1 ratio. Considering felons are generally prohibited from owning handguns in most states the vast majority of murders is done by convicted criminals with illegally owned firearms. Most murders also happen in urban centers with very strict guns laws yet every time guns and murder come up in conversation people want to get mad at law abiding white NRA members and AR-15's.

Whites are also about 14 times less likely to commit murder than blacks. That statistic is 5-7x less likely when whites and hispanics are grouped into the same category.

I am a law abiding owner of a semi auto rifle. Anyone who thinks a conversation about gun control needs to start with me fails at statistics.

If we wanted to spend time one something that would actually curb gun violence that would actually matter we would put more effort in security systems that prevent handgun theft because the picture of murder in the united states is not a bunch of white NRA owners and rifle clubs, it's mostly criminal male urban youth with stolen handguns.

Despite blacks making up about 15% of the US population black urban youth are shockingly almost 70% of youth robbery arrests. If you want to focus on something that will actually matter then the people who live near high crime neighborhoods who own handguns have to do a more complete job at securing their property from theft because when their handguns get stolen they are extremely likely to fall into the wrong hands on the streets.

The demographic of young black male with prior felony is an extremely small percentage of the US population (probably less than 1%) but it represents nearly 45% of all murders in the United States. Stolen handguns in the hands of this demographic is indeed extraordinarily dangerous.