Gun Control and Crime
A. Violent crimes
For England and Wales: 775 violent crimes per 100,000
For the United States: 383 violent crimes per 100,000
England and Wales have DOUBLE the violent crime in their society as the United States…And they virtually have no guns
B. Other nations
Norway is near the bottom of list in terms of homicide rate, but France is near triple the rate of homicide rate….
What does all this suggest?
Maybe this has little to do with guns and more to do with the population that is in your country.
This can be illustrated further by looking at
C. Individual States of the United States,
When looking at particular states, there is no correlation between high gun ownership rate and crime rate.
States with lowest homicide rates include New Hampshire, Vermont, Iowa, MA, Utah, Minnesota, Maine, Idaho, Wyoming.
If u visit any of these states there will be virtually no gun violence even though everyone has a gun.
Why?
Because the people in places like Iowa, Idaho aren’t shooting each other. This isn’t that hard to understand
However,
If you go to places like Washington DC and Chicago, places with higher gun control laws…
Not if its an (a)social violent situation (see below)C) you're protecting yourself by not having a gun.
I agree using a gun isn’t 100% the correct response when dealing with social violence, where the goal is more about dominance than intent to kill (ex: armed burglary), in many cases, it’s better to simply comply with the criminal.D) I don't know if you have had many experiencing de-escalating an incredibly violent situation. It works. It's one of the greatest displays of strength and of intelligence I've ever seen. Using a gun is easy and less optimizing.
However, when violence becomes (a)social, no amount of de-escalation will help the situation:
--The scariest person at the bar isn’t the crazy buffed out loud alpha male. Rather, It’s the quiet killer sitting in the corner of the room in silence that doesn’t give AF about what u or the bouncer tells him who decides to pull a knife out. No negotiations
--The guy in the hoody who walks towards u. His hands are in his pockets and u tell him to stop. He keeps walking towards u despite that. Little do u know he has a knife and gun.
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Those are real life examples
E) Yes, when one mistakenly says there is no correlation between laws on guns and on a decrease in violence (there is a correlation between gun laws and decrease in violence, as I shared above), that is indicating 'background checks shouldn't be implemented in the screening process of getting a gun' (your quote). You do seem to advocate for and see the use of gun laws.
You don't like the hassle of Universal Background Checks, including familiar transfers...but that's how Dylan Roof was armed. https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...-to-get-a-gun/--Background checks are fine. I think u should screen hard for mental illness and things like being suicidal and make it illegal for those people to obtain guns. Guns should also be locked away from such people or those vulnerable.F) You are a person. You dying at your own hand when you're depressed and just want your pain to go away not to actually die is one of THE GREATEST THREATS to your life. Which I made pretty clear above. It's not 'sneaking in data' like you suggested for me to COUNT YOU as a person when you're talking about making yourself safer.
--I think we can both agree suicide is horrible though, and measures should be taken to prevent this
--90% of criminals obtained their weapons illegally, all this won’t deter criminals from breaking the law to obtain the weapons thru whatever means necessary.AND research shows, AS I SHARED ABOVE, "What surprised us the most was that in states that enacted a combination of universal background-check laws, laws prohibiting the sale of guns to people with violent misdemeanors, and concealed carry permit laws, the homicide rates were 35 percent lower than in states with none of those three kinds of laws."www.bu.edu/articles/2019/state-gun-laws-that-reduce-gun-deaths/