10-20-2022, 06:04 PM
(10-20-2022, 01:17 PM)JasonBlack Wrote:(10-19-2022, 12:03 PM)David Horn Wrote: There is no evidence that a "good guy with a gun" is a factor in preventing, deterring or stopping crime. In fact, quite the opposite. The decline in criminal activity has a lot more to do with the Xers aging out of the violent demographic, and improvements in work opportunities not COVID, and an effect now in active reversal. Watch for more crime, regardless of what is done.
And let's not forget that the era of mass shooting started and has grown in direct proportion to the number of guns in circulation. We will have to remove a huge number of them at some point, and it won't be pretty when we do.
Actually, there is quite a bit of evidence. I'm a big fan of Dr. Thomas Sowell's work on this topic. A level headed voice in a sea of zealotry around a contentious topic.
You do realize that the gun lobby, especially the faction that represents the gun industry itself, successfully lobbied to keep the collection and retention of data on gun-related adccidents, suicides and homocides illegal in most places and aggregated data illegal at the national level. That's why the CDC -- by law -- can't study the subject. So your counter argument rings massively hollow. Just as a single point: gun-related crimes in New Zealand and Switzerland are low because ownership requires a license and each weapon is registered. Resales are formal and documented, just like the transfer of a automobile. The unfit are weeded out and the others are fully tracked. You OK with that?
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.