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If every adult that could carry a gun did, there would be much less mass shooting. It would be minimized shooting, in fact.
by artificialLimbs 1y ago
If every adult that could carry a gun did, there would be much less mass shooting. It would be minimized shooting, in fact.
- maest 1y agoThis seems tenuous and directionally wrong based on priors. What evidence do you have for this?
- artificialLimbs 1y agohttps://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/collection/good-guy-gun-stopped-bad-guy-gun/ https://www.washingtontimes.com/multimedia/collection/good-g... Now, how about your evidence?
- inkcapmushroom 1y agohttps://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/5504/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/search/research-news/5504/ https://rockinst.org/blog/public-mass-shootings-around-the-world-prevalence-context-and-prevention/ https://rockinst.org/blog/public-mass-shootings-around-the-w... The US is an outlier in how many guns we own, with about 1/3 of American adults owning guns, and we are also an extreme outlier in mass shootings unless you compare us to places that lack rule of law. How many more people need guns before that mass shooting number goes down to 0, do you think?
- maest 1y agoGiven your link, I'd say every shooting where the bad guy didn't get shot is evidence in the opposite direction? Seems to me there's more of those than your 11 examples.
- tirant 1y agoThat would only be true in a world where every single human is able to regulate their angry emotions immediately. But that is so far away from human nature...