Re:Since 2010, Gun Stores Have Grown 4.7 Times Faster Than t...
by lmm on Wednesday January 20, 2016 @12:14PM
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> Sure, we'll see a decrease in gun related suicides... but the suicides will still occur, just with an alternate method.
Citation needed; that's not the evidence I've seen.
Mass shootings are extremely rare, but non-mass crime is not; guns are also a big factor in whether disputes over e.g. property (particularly drugs) become lethal.
Most of the victims of guns are not particularly sympathetic. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to prevent their deaths.
These days we've done most of the easy/cheap things we can do to prevent human deaths; there are few low-hanging fruit left. So anything we can do to save lives will be expensive and/or involve sacrificing useful things. IMO gun laws are one of the cheaper ways to save lives that remain available (I'd also advocate making driving tests stricter, repealing jaywalking laws and adding an assumption of liability when a driver injures a pedestrian).
Citation needed; that's not the evidence I've seen.
Mass shootings are extremely rare, but non-mass crime is not; guns are also a big factor in whether disputes over e.g. property (particularly drugs) become lethal.
Most of the victims of guns are not particularly sympathetic. That doesn't mean we shouldn't try to prevent their deaths.
These days we've done most of the easy/cheap things we can do to prevent human deaths; there are few low-hanging fruit left. So anything we can do to save lives will be expensive and/or involve sacrificing useful things. IMO gun laws are one of the cheaper ways to save lives that remain available (I'd also advocate making driving tests stricter, repealing jaywalking laws and adding an assumption of liability when a driver injures a pedestrian).