Gun advocates emphasize owning guns for protection, and gun controllers emphasize limiting access to current and potential criminals. There are always two copies of us, one altruistic and one egocentric. The altruistic is more reasonable and enables one to see that statistically places with more guns per capita put more guns in the hands of people, future and current criminals included. The egocentric one is more selfish, it says "fuck the data, I want to have guns when I need them, everything else means nothing." However, using guns for defense is very inefficient, as data indicates that in recent years, whenever a gun is used for defense, about 16 lives have been lost to guns used by criminals and anther 30 people are injured by criminals using guns. This does not include the many-times-larger number of victims of crimes committed with guns who are fortunately not hurt, and the about 20-times larger number of suicide deaths by guns is not included either. Also there are about 30% more unintentional shootings than defensive gun uses in these days.
只有千日做贼,那有千日防贼. The same goes to guns if you make it easy for criminals to have guns. In order for defense with gun to be effective, you need to carry your gun all the time, including at home, and at high alert all the time. Do you want to do that? Can you do that?
fortyNiner 写了: 2023年 11月 19日 21:15
Gun advocates emphasize owning guns for protection, and gun controllers emphasize limiting access to current and potential criminals. There are always two copies of us, one altruistic and one egocentric. The altruistic is more reasonable and enables one to see that statistically places with more guns per capita put more guns in the hands of people, future and current criminals included. The egocentric one is more selfish, it says "fuck the data, I want to have guns when I need them, everything else means nothing." However, using guns for defense is very inefficient, as data indicates that in recent years, whenever a gun is used for defense, about 16 lives have been lost to guns used by criminals and anther 30 people are injured by criminals using guns. This does not include the many-times-larger number of victims of crimes committed with guns who are fortunately not hurt, and the about 20-times larger number of suicide deaths by guns is not included either. Also there are about 30% more unintentional shootings than defensive gun uses in these days.
只有千日做贼,那有千日防贼. The same goes to guns if you make it easy for criminals to have guns. In order for defense with gun to be effective, you need to carry your gun all the time, including at home, and at high alert all the time. Do you want to do that? Can you do that?
fortyNiner 写了: 2023年 11月 19日 21:36
A side question. Why are you so rich? I have watered a lot more posts than you, and I only have MIT$161. Are you MJ of some richer guy?
Stats shows that in places where more people have guns, there are mot homicides and other crimes. You have a good intention and want to use guns for defense, but facts show that guns are very ineffective for good guys to use for defense, and on the other hand they are much more effective for criminals to use to kill. As a result, more people die from guns. The reason? 只有千日做贼,那有千日防贼.
The top 15 states with the highest rape rates are all states with high or medium gun ownership, with one exception of Hawaii. Of course, someone might argue that it's just another coincidence, or they are just not reported in states with low gun ownership. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state ... s-by-state
fortyNiner 写了: 2023年 11月 21日 00:33
The top 15 states with the highest rape rates are all states with high or medium gun ownership, with one exception of Hawaii. Of course, someone might argue that it's just another coincidence, or they are just not reported in states with low gun ownership. https://worldpopulationreview.com/state ... s-by-state
Wise guy, is high crime leads to high gun ownership or high gun ownership leading to high crime?