single parent homes and guns are explored a bit herein;

The section in the middle labeled “total” is the overall US figures.

The process in play here goes something like this:

Government: Pass a welfare program and policies that encourage single-parent households.

Government: Prosecute a ridiculous “war on drugs” that lands a huge number of fathers in prison, creating even more single-parent households.

Result: Crime unsurprisingly rises in the places most affected by the government’s misguided policies.

Government: ‘You’ll need to give up your guns so we can make the country safer.’

Remember this the next time a politician announces that we have to do something about “gun violence”…and then calls for enacting still more failed gun control laws.......more.......