Yes, but increase in guns per owner started decades before mass shootings, and the rate of increase has been much slower. It's clearly an enabling factor, but gun availability and prevalence per se does not explain mass shootings.https://twitter.com/danevandyck/status/964622061539749888 …
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I meant to include a tweet here about domestic violence. A similar point holds: A lot of mass shooters have a prior history — I’ve seen no comprehensive stats, but my anecdotal sense is clearly at a higher rate than the general population — but again the large majority don’t.
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Ari Schulman Retweeted Will Oremus
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This is a great example of a gun control measure that's focused on people showing clear warning signs of intending violence, and is compatible with due process and 2A. Kudos to
@DavidAFrench for this.https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/02/gun-control-republicans-consider-grvo/ …30 replies 201 retweets 563 likesShow this thread -
Re: the aghast response to
@DouthatNYT's proposal: Age limits by firearms class are already on the books — 21 to buy a handgun from a dealer, 18 a rifle. Adding new classes & raising age limits may restrict liberty too far, but it's not a radical break.https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/02/17/opinion/sunday/no-country-for-young-men-with-ar-15s.html?referer=https://t.co/VE9Wca0Z8T?amp=1 …6 replies 24 retweets 158 likesShow this thread -
Useful overview of existing age restrictions for gun purchase & possession here:http://lawcenter.giffords.org/gun-laws/policy-areas/who-can-have-a-gun/minimum-age/ …
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Ari Schulman Retweeted Ben Shapiro
This is interesting.https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/965695877854642176 …
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There is indeed strong evidence for this kind of restriction — see my essay here: https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-mass-killers-want8212and-how-to-stop-them-1383957068 …. Kudos to
@benshapiro for this move.https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/965695877854642176 …Ari Schulman added,
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Note that the Connecticut State Attorney's 2013 report on the Sandy Hook shooting, highly detailed at 48 pages, used the shooter's name only once (to say it would henceforth refer to him as "the shooter"). http://www.ct.gov/csao/lib/csao/Sandy_Hook_Final_Report.pdf …
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One thing I haven't seen is any effort to track the increase in mass shootings with ownership rates of specific weapons like AR-15s that mass shooters favor. That could be more meaningful than these charts of total gun ownership, where there's no apparent correlation.
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A common theme seems to be high levels of resentment and imitative behavior. The latter is something humans seem to not like considering in their own behavior.
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