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Those familiar with guns know their place, and are (on the whole) actually much less likely to harm others without cause - precisely because they are familiar w
by ctdonath 5y ago
Those familiar with guns know their place, and are (on the whole) actually much less likely to harm others without cause - precisely because they are familiar with the likely harm.
One cherry-picked anecdote is insufficient. A million or so crimes, murders included, are deterred/stopped every year - most without firing a shot.
- hytdstd 5y ago> A million or so crimes, murders included, are deterred/stopped every year - most without firing a shot. The data don't really suggest that this is the case. Compared to other western countries, America has the same rate of crime. The difference is, of course, that criminal activity is more likely to involve firearms and thus death.