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Most gun violence is gang violence, and the incentive model you are describing doesn't apply to those committing gang violence.
by x3n0ph3n3 6y ago
Most gun violence is gang violence, and the incentive model you are describing doesn't apply to those committing gang violence.
- XorNot 6y agoI'm not talking about whether gun control should be carried out. Or if gun ownership is the source of America's societal ills. I'm talking about the reality that getting rid of a large proportion of anything by the government has never been an issue of having accurate records. Again: make it illegal, make compliance an individual responsibility, punish breaches heavily, (optional) incentivise law enforcement to find breaches
- xirbeosbwo1234 6y ago>Most gun violence is gang violence I'm pretty sure this isn't true. The total number of people killed with guns in the US in 2011 was about 9900. See page 6 here: https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/hus11.pdf https://www.bjs.gov/content/pub/pdf/hus11.pdf That year there were somewhere around 1800 gang homicides. See the bottom of this page: https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Survey-Analysis/Measuring-the-Extent-of-Gang-Problems https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/Survey-Analysis/Measuring... Note that not all of those gang-related homicides involved guns. Note also that the methodology to describe a homicide as "gang-related" will tend to overestimate the rate of gang crime, since the most common methodology is to check whether anyone involved is a gang member even if the motive was not gang-related. See FAQ #5 here: https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/About/FAQ#q5 https://www.nationalgangcenter.gov/About/FAQ#q5 I haven't done more than five minutes of reading, but the numbers I listed would have to be way off to make the majority of gun violence gang-related.