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un-nuanced observers talk about it because it's likely largest subset of murders in the U.S. - angenda driven (anti-gun) observers like to talk about it because
by rbcgerard 10y ago
un-nuanced observers talk about it because it's likely largest subset of murders in the U.S. - angenda driven (anti-gun) observers like to talk about it because they can frame a problem in such a way that leads people to the outcome they want - I.e. The obvious solution to ending gun violence is limiting access to guns, and they don't have to address the much more complex problem of violence (for example: if a spouse kills her partner with a gun, and we want to reduce gun violence, we limit access to the gun, but will that spouse just substitute a knife for the gun?)
Put another way - if you could snap your fingers and make every gun in the u.s. Disappear, you would solve the gun violence problem, and undoubtedly reduce the incedence of violent crime, but not completely, and then the question becomes by how much? Which is not easy to answer - especially if we were to translate that to a real world hypothetical
- wstrange 10y agoI don't think anyone claims that reducing guns would eliminate violence. That is a strawman. There does seem to be reasonable evidence from other countries that reduced accessed to guns (and certain types of guns in particular) does have an impact. Guns just make it ridiculously easy to kill a lot of people in a hurry. It takes a lot more strength and determination to plunge a knife into someone (perhaps several times) when compared to pulling a trigger.