RE: THE Gun Thread
May 18, 2022 at 10:43 am
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2022 at 10:48 am by The Grand Nudger.)
That's why, to employ a metaphor...if you really want to make sure that the level in a tank stays below some certain point...you don't draw lines on the sides. You drain the tank.
Outside of metaphor, criminals don't buy guns from law abiding people. People who sell guns to criminals are, themselves, committing a crime. They're "otherwise-law-abiding"...at best...but this is the main pipeline for guns in trace data. By the same token, concerns over criminals stealing guns are not well founded. That's just not how these guns are ending up in the data. We might imagine criminals (by their nature, whatever that means) would - but hypotheticals are irrelevent, because they just aren't. They're already criminals. Could do the thing. Aren't.
Outside of metaphor, criminals don't buy guns from law abiding people. People who sell guns to criminals are, themselves, committing a crime. They're "otherwise-law-abiding"...at best...but this is the main pipeline for guns in trace data. By the same token, concerns over criminals stealing guns are not well founded. That's just not how these guns are ending up in the data. We might imagine criminals (by their nature, whatever that means) would - but hypotheticals are irrelevent, because they just aren't. They're already criminals. Could do the thing. Aren't.
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