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It's genuinely hard. You have to go to a granularity of counties at minimum, and pro-gun John Lott is the only guy I know who's done that. E.g. look at this b

by hga 11y ago

It's genuinely hard. You have to go to a granularity of counties at minimum, and pro-gun John Lott is the only guy I know who's done that. E.g. look at this by state and hit the column sorting buttons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_States_by_state https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_violence_in_the_United_Sta... Maryland, which I lived next to while in Arlington, VA for a dozen years, and Missouri where I was born, raised, and have retired to, have very similar statistics with very different gun control regimes. Just looked at racial makeup on their separate state pages, and Maryland has almost 3 times the percentage of blacks, which would not at all support a thesis that they're generically overly prone to murder with guns. Or look at Joplin, and at the other end of I-44, which replaced Route 66, is St. Louis, just now the murder capital of the US. Night and day, same gun control laws or lack thereof, e.g. no more difficult to buy them than anywhere else in the US and easy to obtain concealed carry licenses.

geggam 11y ago
Should tell you gun violence is more a symptom of other issues. I grew up where you could go deer hunting and leave school early to do so. Rule was you had to put your gun / bullets in the principals office. Same place those of us who were in trouble sat. Unattended. 50+ guns / couple hundred bullets. No one ever got shot nor was it ever even talked about.
- hga 11y ago
  When my father went to high school here in the late '40s, he and his peers would keep their long guns in their lockers for the same reason, same result with absolutely no control by the school authorities. The late Supreme Court justice Scalia, 3 years younger, related in the oral arguments of Heller how he'd carry his target rifle on the NYC subway to and from his school/JROTC? rifle range. When I attended in the late '70s, the JROTC rifles were in a safe to which we did not have the combination (well, they were government property), now they use air rifles :-(.

by hga 11y ago

geggam 11y ago

Should tell you gun violence is more a symptom of other issues. I grew up where you could go deer hunting and leave school early to do so. Rule was you had to put your gun / bullets in the principals office. Same place those of us who were in trouble sat. Unattended. 50+ guns / couple hundred bullets. No one ever got shot nor was it ever even talked about.

hga 11y ago
When my father went to high school here in the late '40s, he and his peers would keep their long guns in their lockers for the same reason, same result with absolutely no control by the school authorities. The late Supreme Court justice Scalia, 3 years younger, related in the oral arguments of Heller how he'd carry his target rifle on the NYC subway to and from his school/JROTC? rifle range. When I attended in the late '70s, the JROTC rifles were in a safe to which we did not have the combination (well, they were government property), now they use air rifles :-(.