06-17-2016, 06:12 PM
The stats on "gun deaths" should be separated into five categories; a) suicides, b) crime-related murder, c) non-crime-related murder, d) rampages/terror, e) accidents.
a) and b) are hard to fix or reduce directly by controlling guns, as they're driven to their actions (and to seek guns) by other motives. You could argue that controlling guns might reduce the number of successful suicide attempts as other methods are harder to go through with.
c) is somewhat easier as they're often spontaneous crimes of passion which may or may not result in murder if there wasn't a gun ready at hand. There's no definitive data on this because we don't stratify our data.
d) is also easier to address than a) and b) as basic screening (eg Orlando) or responsible gun ownership (eg Sandy Hook) would have prevented several of these.
...and e) is the easiest. Lock the fucking gun away like FU does and educate yourself or those who will have access to them.
a) and b) are hard to fix or reduce directly by controlling guns, as they're driven to their actions (and to seek guns) by other motives. You could argue that controlling guns might reduce the number of successful suicide attempts as other methods are harder to go through with.
c) is somewhat easier as they're often spontaneous crimes of passion which may or may not result in murder if there wasn't a gun ready at hand. There's no definitive data on this because we don't stratify our data.
d) is also easier to address than a) and b) as basic screening (eg Orlando) or responsible gun ownership (eg Sandy Hook) would have prevented several of these.
...and e) is the easiest. Lock the fucking gun away like FU does and educate yourself or those who will have access to them.