We need to get the number of guns off the street and the number of criminals off the street.

Driving between errands this morning with NPR playing.  Sounds like there was a mass shooting in Seattle yesterday evening with sixty-some shots fired, two people injured seriously and perhaps half a dozen others lightly wounded.  

There was something about the wording choice or sequence from the reporter or one of the witnesses or a Seattle politician.  The whole set up seemed geared towards your typical gun control spiel so typical of NPR.  No problem so big or small that it can't be solved by taking away natural rights.

But at the last moment there was some comment about a criminal or something along those lines (it was crowded traffic as I was driving and I was focused there.)

They delivered the standard bromide about reducing the number of guns through better gun control but it sort of sounded like:

We need to get the number of guns off the street and the number of criminals off the street.

The second part was not explicit but followed from the set up and once it was inferred, it was hard to ignore.

Which is easier?  Getting guns off the street through unconstitutional regulations or throwing violent criminals into jail?  And if the answer that it would be easier to lock up violent criminals who use guns, then the obvious question is "Why aren't you doing that?"