The assassination attempt against President Donald Trump only managed to get one innocent bystander killed with several others injured, either directly by gunshots or by debris.

It was a terrible moment in the campaign and one that will likely have ramifications as we move into the general election season. 

But for some people, all the shooting represented was yet another chance to push gun control, and they're angry that we didn't let them.

Attempted presidential assassinations are always big news. There have been 46 U.S. presidencies and 16 assassination attempts, including four that ended in the death of a president.

But my question for the politicians and media who are obsessing over the attempt on Trump’s life is this. With the country standing knee-deep in gun deaths, with the violence going up like a rocket, where is the resolve and commitment to keep regular people safe?

Why does it seem more important who gets shot, rather than how many other victims fall with virtually no changes to the country’s dreadful gun laws?

Well, first, homicides are trending down, you sanctimonious twit. If you just googled homicide data, you'd see that. We had an unnatural spike around 2020, driven in part by the pandemic followed by social unrest, but as with all things, we've had a trend downward year after year since then, predating the Bipartisan Safer Communities Act, suggesting that it had absolutely nothing to do with anything.

We're focusing on the Secret Service failures and the Trump assassination attempt as a whole because, frankly, someone trying to take out a political leader is big news. It's about more than someone trying to kill another. It's about someone trying to use violence to influence the electoral process, which should scare the crap out of everyone in this country. Whether the would-be assassin had a gun or not isn't the issue. The fact that someone tried to kill a presidential candidate with his party's nomination locked up has serious ramifications.

What's more, while we can see that there actually are too many homicides relating to firearms, our non-gun homicide rate is higher than most other nation's total homicide rate. Our issue here isn't guns but that so many people, like this would-be assassin, view life as cheap.

Until and unless we can start addressing that, we're never going to move forward. 

But some people see guns as some kind of problem. If you ask them if they think guns exert control over people or have a will of their own, they'll say that they don't. They'll probably be insulted that you even asked because the idea that they do is so ridiculous.

Yet they continue to act as if they do.

A would-be assassin tried to kill Trump, just as people kill other people every single day. It isn't right and yes, we should do something about it. Yet we need to focus on the people doing the killing, because as I've already pointed out, even if you removed every gun from the nation, we'd still outpace other developed nations in our homicide rate, especially since as least some of those gun homicides would still happen.

Stop pretending guns are responsible.