Your "black on black violence" theme outs you, sir, the favorite red herring of the far right. I'd bet money you don't give a rat's a@@ about those lives. And since you asked, yes, sensible gun control advocates do care about urban violence, rural violence, all violence, no matter who commits it against whom. That's the entire point. For the record, I am a gun owner and civil liberties watch dog who believes that it's entirely possible to protect the 2nd amendment right to bear arms and still curtail the mass trade of assault style weapons. Watch out, complexity alert.