RE: El Paso Shooting (Yes, Again)
August 4, 2019 at 10:00 am
(This post was last modified: August 4, 2019 at 10:03 am by The Grand Nudger.)
There’s no data whatsoever to suggest that gun owning Americans are less likely to be victimized, or that the use of their gun is more successful at preventing victimization.
At best, they’re a safety blanket that, for whatever reason (and there are many) doesn’t actually have the effect we might expect to see in a vacuum.
One of the reasons we don’t have -more- shootings, is that people strongly avoid shooting other people. Even people who may have explained their gun purchase through explicit reference if intent to shoot someone with it.
This is also why gun owners who focus on home defense aren’t more of a threat than they could be.
If we want to work on this problem, all we have to do is look at trace data and tailor our response to what we see.
This doesn’t mean we can’t notice that home defense gun owners are no less likely to be burglarized or assaulted, but are more likely to shoot their immediate family members, so, and themselves. Or to be shot by those others.
At best, they’re a safety blanket that, for whatever reason (and there are many) doesn’t actually have the effect we might expect to see in a vacuum.
One of the reasons we don’t have -more- shootings, is that people strongly avoid shooting other people. Even people who may have explained their gun purchase through explicit reference if intent to shoot someone with it.
This is also why gun owners who focus on home defense aren’t more of a threat than they could be.
If we want to work on this problem, all we have to do is look at trace data and tailor our response to what we see.
This doesn’t mean we can’t notice that home defense gun owners are no less likely to be burglarized or assaulted, but are more likely to shoot their immediate family members, so, and themselves. Or to be shot by those others.
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