The biggest problem with gun violence in America isn't (in terms of the number of fatalities) the horrific shooting massacres like the ones that occurred last year in Connecticut and Colorado, but in American cities like Chicago, Oakland, and Philadelphia.
That's why New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly says that though he appreciates the sentiment behind that new gun control legislation announced last week by California Democratic U.S. Senator Diane Feinstein that would ban assault weapons, that's not the biggest challenge his offices face in the country's largest city.
"For us in New York City and, I believe in most urban centers throughout America, the problem really is concealable handguns," Kelly told CBS's Bob Schieffer on Face the Nation on Sunday. "Only 2 percent of the people that we've arrested for guns in the last two years have had assault weapons. We don't want them on the streets, make no mistake about it. The problem is the handgun. 60 percent of the murders in New York City are put by handguns, and we simply have too many of them. .."
This article appears in Jan 24-30, 2013.