Gun (pt. 1/5) - Tiff🏳️‍⚧️& Eve [OC]

[u/CrazyGnomenclature]

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[u/Force_Glad]

As an American, it absolutely doesn't. Literally every study that's ever been done on gun ownership and personal safety has shown that owning a gun just leads people to end up in more situations where they'd use it

[u/sonofzeal → u/Force_Glad]

I wonder how you control for causation in those studies. If someone expects to be in a situation it would be needed (ie they have a stalker, they'll be travelling in a difficult neighborhood, etc) then they're more likely to seek out a gun.

Not disagreeing but it seems hard to account for

[u/Coidzor → u/sonofzeal]

Then there's the other causation angle, where the people get the guns because they want to get into a situation to use them.

[u/Blueprints_reddit → u/Coidzor]

Thats not the majority of people.

[u/In_Pursuit_of_Fire → u/Blueprints_reddit]

But the minority could skew the results

[u/Blueprints_reddit → u/In_Pursuit_of_Fire]

Id say probably not much because the vast majority of firearms owners are law abiding people who have never committed a constitutional firearms crime.

Criminals dont follow the law and the actual gum crime statistics show things that get people called racist.

[u/My_Work_Accoount → u/[deleted]]

Having a weapon on me has made me more aware of situations that could go sideways. I don't want to use the thing or deal with the aftermath so the second it looks like a situation might go bad I GTFO.

[u/its_free_sog → u/Force_Glad]

I mean that’s just verifiably and flagrantly false, but ok

[u/Beneficial_Delay_365 → u/Force_Glad]

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