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"There are more guns in America than people, and this is unlikely to change anytime soon. But this doesn’t mean that gun violence lies outside the scope of feas
by giantg2 1y ago
"There are more guns in America than people, and this is unlikely to change anytime soon. But this doesn’t mean that gun violence lies outside the scope of feasible public policy initiatives."
The problem is, nobody is really supporting those other initiatives either. For decades we have seen interventions like Operation Ceasefire in Boston produce dramatic results. Someone had to fund it, but very few want to. Everytown for Gun Safety doesn't seem to contribute to these programs from what I see on the website. Likewise, the Bill Gates supports various charities and donates millions to support gun laws, yet I'm not aware of any work done on funding these initiatives that show empirical evidence of working.
- oldpersonintx2 1y ago[dead]
- vorpalhex 1y agoNobody actually wants to fix crime. We know there are a bunch of interventions with meaningful impacts on the crime rate. This ranges from actually keeping repeat offenders in jail to making preschool freely available. Nobody does them. It isn't cost, there doesn't seem to generally be an ethical outcry, etc. Just nobody actually wants to address the problem. They instead want to leverage crime to achieve some other goal. Actually fixing crime harms the ability to use crime to achieve other ends. So it goes.