Gun violence is the real problem with our country and it's time for our politicians to finally do mo

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http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/guns-real-problem-country-article-1.2242062

And the other night in Washington, D.C., a 28-year old reporter named Charnice Milton was shot to death in the southeast part of that city while waiting for a bus after finishing her work for the day for Capital Community News.
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When it is over, D.C. Police Chief Cathy Lanier, said this: “Unfortunately, wrong place, wrong time.”
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It is as much a definition of a country of guns right now as anything else: The wrong place in America is a bus stop where a young woman with everything ahead of her is waiting for a bus to take her home from work. One more time, on one of the streets that the police of this country so often try to police in vain, the wrong place at the wrong time turned out to be anywhere.

How can a bus stop be the "wrong place" and after work be the "wrong time"? How is it we as a nation have become so complacent with gun violence that this death can be attributed to "wrong place, wrong time"?

I posted earlier about a bill requiring liability insurance on firearms and cited the cost of gun violence at $12 billion a year. http://www.democraticunderground.com/12628959 I was wrong. According to this article in Business Insider the cost, including medical, extended care, psychological support, rehabilitation, investigation, incarceration and increased security is $227 billion. I was off a bit. That's half the military budget which is the largest single part of discretionary spending.

When politicians talk about cutting spending how about they look at the cost of gun violence and try to do something about that instead of cutting SNAP?

edit to add link to Business Insider: http://www.businessinsider.com/gun-violence-costs-america-more-than-229-billion-every-year-2015-4