They also have a very low precentage of convictions based on the very high number of weapons violations and murders. There should be no such term as "Plea Bargain".
In regard to this very fact:
My State Senator, Ron Johnson told me, through email I believe, or it may have been in an actual conversation, that something in neighborhood of around 1% of charges for convicted felons charged with firearms violation get prosecuted.
He stated that until this number is drastically improved no further burden should he placed on the average firearm owner in any manner.
This do to the simple fact that if you take out those killings caused by suicide (because seriously that is not a patrolabel offense if you ask me) & prior felons, the numbers drop dramatically to only 1% of the fatalities resulting from firearms by normal people for one reason or another. If factoring out accidental shootings that number would then drop significantly, I was told.
Only problem with more convictions is more inmates nation wide, due to longer sentencing. As a result there is more money for prisons, so the leaching by both the criminals and governement systems still manage to use our money in mostly non-productive, as seen by return rates of prior convicted felons, albeit confessingly not a high percentage from firearms related convictions, as a way to see this trend. In otherwords, they were headed back anyway, for something else NOT firearms related also.
Quite simply, we need a new system of Rehabilitaion. One that actually works.
Only then will this nonsense be curbed.