Everybody wants to reduce gang crime, but that is a separate issue unrelated to what the conversation usually is. People often use gang violence in stats they

Everybody wants to reduce gang crime, but that is a separate issue unrelated to what the conversation usually is. People often use gang violence in stats they use to argue for increasing gun control. Bringing gang violence into the conversation makes no sense, since gangs historically get guns no matter how many laws prohibit it. Doubly so since often gangs are in cities and urban areas: the places in America that already have the most strict gun laws. Acting like armed groups of criminals breaking the law to fight each other fall in the same category as a mentally unwell individual shooting innocent civilians are in the same category, and using the same term to refer to them both, helps nobody and just muddies the conversation.