But since the Democrats aren't going to have that wish granted anytime soon, they're stuck with making a big deal out of America's gun crime. 

As I've written ad nauseum in the past, a lot of our gun crime stems from other problems our society is facing but refuses to deal with. Many of the gun deaths in our country are a result of drug trafficking, gang activity, or other types of crimes, more often than not occurring in blue cities where soft-on-crime approaches have been taken. 

(READ: Democrats Are the Real Danger When It Comes to Crime, Not Rifles)

According to data released by Pew Research in April 2021, over 48,000 people died as a result of gun-related injuries in the United States. While murder saw a dramatic rise, it was wholly beaten out by gun-related suicide, with over 26,300 people using a gun to kill themselves, vs. over 20,900 being used to commit murders. 

The suicide rate has been on a steady rise since '04, so what's the deal? 

Firstly, it's not a gun issue. In fact, according to the CDC, the suicide rate in '21 was massive, but half of them weren't gun-related at all. Moreover, the number of people who considered suicide was off the charts: 

Suicide rates increased approximately 36% between 2000–2021. Suicide was responsible for 48,183 deaths in 2021, which is about one death every 11 minutes. The number of people who think about or attempt suicide is even higher. In 2021, an estimated 12.3 million American adults seriously thought about suicide, 3.5 million planned a suicide attempt, and 1.7 million attempted suicide.

The CDC also noted the groups most prone to suicide: 

By race/ethnicity, the groups with the highest rates are non-Hispanic American Indian/Alaska Native people followed by non-Hispanic White people. Other Americans with higher-than-average rates of suicide are veterans, people who live in rural areas, and workers in certain industries and occupations like mining and construction.Young people who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual have higher prevalence of suicidal thoughts and behavior compared to their peers who identify as heterosexual.

Statistically, the CDC says white people kill themselves by the greatest number at over 36,000 with black people following up at over 3,600. 

When it comes to sex, men are far more suicidal than women with the final suicide tally of 2021 equaling out to over 38,000 male suicides to around 9,800 female suicides. 

While mental health is often discussed and suicide is spoken about, it's not exactly spoken about in great detail. The media has given our national suicide epidemic very little air time compared to what a white cop did to a black person and the latest mass shooting. 

There are pages and pages of data containing the reasons people commit suicide from feelings of loss, irrelevance, and hopelessness with the origins of these feelings ranging from economic stagnation and money troubles to a lost sense of purpose. Men are haunted by their solitude and emotional isolation, while people who buy into the transgender lifestyle often find themselves developing mental illnesses as a result. 

The thing is, we have the sources of the suicide epidemic identified but we have a mainstream culture that has no desire to do anything about it. It only seeks to exacerbate the problems we currently see. 

A destructive path is being followed by our nation and will continue to be until we reverse things both politically and culturally. A healing economy would go a long way to help fix a lot of these problems, but the re-emergence and acceptance of traditions would also act to reverse the course of many self-inflicted deaths. Men should not be shamed for being men and we should stop glorifying transgenderism so that people stop being tempted by it. 

At the end of the day, the left is looking at the wrong problem. The guns aren't the issue, the issue is always something behind the gun. Right now, we have way too many people putting themselves in the line of the barrel and if people truly care, they'll start focusing on why and fix it.