RE: What do you think about gun control?
February 9, 2022 at 8:28 am
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2022 at 8:32 am by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 9, 2022 at 5:22 am)FlatAssembler Wrote: An issue I have been thinking a lot about lately is gun control. I was wondering what you guys here think about it. While I am quite sure prisons are not a sensible policy, I am not so sure about gun control. I can think of some rather compelling arguments both for and against gun control, from the purely consequentialist perspective (so, not appealing to rights and similar concepts).Well, one thing gun control laws say, for example, is that a five year old can't buy a rifle.
AGAINST:
1) How could it work given what gun control laws actually say?
Quote:2) Self-defense use of guns seems to greatly outnumber the number of deaths caused by guns.Can't be bothered to check the stats for notheristan, but that's not the case in the us, or even close to it.
Quote:1) There appears to be a really strong consensus among social scientists that gun control helps.Yeah, damn those leftists with their "toddlers cant buy guns" laws. Obvious bias is obvious.
CONTRA: That consensus may be based on political bias, since social scientists tend to be very left-wing.
Quote:2) There seems to be a strong correlation between gun ownership and violent crime within the US.
CONTRA: There does not seem to be such a strong correlation elsewhere, such as in Europe. The UK has among the lowest gun ownership rates in Europe, yet it is the highest in violent crime. Croatia and Serbia have the highest gun ownership rate in Europe, yet they are very low in violent crime.
More the other way around. Gun owners aren't more likely to be violent criminals. Violent criminals are likely, in the us, to own a gun. The overwhelming majority of guns in the us are owned by and sit in the least violent places in the us. It's mostly hoarding. People with tons of guns. Some of us grow up getting them as birthday and christmas presents fairly regularly.
Personally, I think that it would be ludicrous if we didn't have gun laws. It's a dangerous piece of equipment.
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