RE: High school shooting in Parkland FL
February 20, 2018 at 10:58 am
(This post was last modified: February 20, 2018 at 11:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Going by the numbers. The one single thing that would reduce the gun related homicide rate would be greater restrictions on handguns within city limits. Right behind that, and related in that it overwhelmingly favors encounters with a handgun, transitioning from stand your ground to duty to retreat. Those two things appear to be the difference between high gun crime rates and low ones even when comparing similar states rates of ownership, distribution, and regulations. Some states..and the US is always compared as a whole agains other, smaller states*, are already model states /w regards to gun crime..their effective rate could be reduced to a statistically insignificant number with the assumption of the changes above....even when those states are among the highest in rates of ownership and distribution. The gun crime and ergo gun homicide rate is a solvable problem in ways that others are not..at least in the current political climate.
Like most broad gun control suggestions, that's not likely to do much /w regards to school shootings even though it accounts for the majority of all crime committed with firearm. Hiding beneath the morass of handgun death is the fact that school schootings are an aberration in the data - they'll require a more direct approach than broad gun restrictions meant to reduce gun crime. There's precisely zero chance of anything effective being done about it in the near term.
*(allowing our greater number of heavily populated cities in comparison to any other single country to skew the data massively)
Like most broad gun control suggestions, that's not likely to do much /w regards to school shootings even though it accounts for the majority of all crime committed with firearm. Hiding beneath the morass of handgun death is the fact that school schootings are an aberration in the data - they'll require a more direct approach than broad gun restrictions meant to reduce gun crime. There's precisely zero chance of anything effective being done about it in the near term.
*(allowing our greater number of heavily populated cities in comparison to any other single country to skew the data massively)
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