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You are confusing correlation and causation. Places with Gun Control today have higher crime rates including expectation of death by gun than those that are Gu

You are confusing correlation and causation. Places with Gun Control today have higher crime rates including expectation of death by gun than those that are Gun Friendly. Look at our government statistics. And the hierarchal structure of the US Constitution and legal system (based on Common Law rather than Civil Law). Constitutional Amendments are far above any other federal law - for example, state laws barring free speech are struck down because the 1A is most fundamental. But regulating milk is not. Common Law generally inverts the legislative/legal process compared to a Civic Law system. The US, all British Commonwealth Nations and US territories and commonwealths are all Common Law, and that's pretty much the only places. The rest of the world is Civil Law based on French and Roman legal traditions which operate very differently and are based on different fundamental assumptions. It's sometimes said that in Common Law, ALL things are legal except those specifically outlined by law as forbidden, while in Civil Law, ALL things are forbidden except those specifically outlined by law as allowed. That's about how big the difference is though the impact on legislative process and judicial process are nontrivial as well.

Jcowell 4y ago
> Places with Gun Control today have higher crime rates including expectation of death by gun than those that are Gun Friendly. Note the why is very important here. My hypothesis is that guns from Gun friendly places being funneled into Gun Control places. A solution would be banning all guns to decrease the amount of gun deaths. This, however, is not a practical solution politically for various reasons.
- Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
  "A solution would be banning all guns to decrease the amount of gun deaths. This, however, is not a practical solution politically for various reasons." It's not a practical solution, full stop. See how mass quantities of drugs are smuggled around the world; guns and the small supplies of ammo criminals use (they aren't big on practicing) are much more compact, durable etc.
  - herendin 4y ago
    >It's not a practical solution, full stop. See how mass quantities of drugs are smuggled around the world Not a good analogy. People want guns because other people have guns. But people do not want drugs because other people have drugs
    - _-david-_ 4y ago
      Sometimes, but not always. Some people want to buy drugs to do drugs with other people and to fit in. If their friends or whoever didn't do drugs they may not buy drugs themself. Some people want to own guns to go hunting by themself and would still want to do it even if nobody else owned guns.
      - herendin 4y ago
        Irrelevant. If only edge cases support the analogy, then the analogy is a poor one, as I said.

Jcowell 4y ago

> Places with Gun Control today have higher crime rates including expectation of death by gun than those that are Gun Friendly. Note the why is very important here. My hypothesis is that guns from Gun friendly places being funneled into Gun Control places. A solution would be banning all guns to decrease the amount of gun deaths. This, however, is not a practical solution politically for various reasons.

Throwawayaerlei 4y ago
"A solution would be banning all guns to decrease the amount of gun deaths. This, however, is not a practical solution politically for various reasons." It's not a practical solution, full stop. See how mass quantities of drugs are smuggled around the world; guns and the small supplies of ammo criminals use (they aren't big on practicing) are much more compact, durable etc.
- herendin 4y ago
  >It's not a practical solution, full stop. See how mass quantities of drugs are smuggled around the world Not a good analogy. People want guns because other people have guns. But people do not want drugs because other people have drugs
  - _-david-_ 4y ago
    Sometimes, but not always. Some people want to buy drugs to do drugs with other people and to fit in. If their friends or whoever didn't do drugs they may not buy drugs themself. Some people want to own guns to go hunting by themself and would still want to do it even if nobody else owned guns.
    - herendin 4y ago
      Irrelevant. If only edge cases support the analogy, then the analogy is a poor one, as I said.