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I totally agree that reducing weapons around should reduce weapon related violence, and also weapon related anything. But why does a gun in the US kill more th
by 01acheru 5y ago
I totally agree that reducing weapons around should reduce weapon related violence, and also weapon related anything.
But why does a gun in the US kill more than that same gun in almost any developed county by an N factor?
Is this also a cultural factor? Or maybe social or political?
Or maybe there is a threshold over which weapon violence rises with a higher exponential in relation to weapon ownership?
For example over a certain threshold you end up having a significant number of armed individuals that are poor, desperate and armed which boosts potentially lethal criminality. Or stupid and violent armed people.
Or maybe: over a certain threshold you have too many people that are simply both armed and stupid. Occam's razor point towards this one IMHO.