It's a weird statement when you think about it - what defines "good" and what defines "bad"?
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Some people use criminal convictions, but we know that criminality doesn't necessarily predict gun violence
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Whereas many people who are "good" guys will go on to eventually murder using firearms
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Some people blame
#Mentalhealth, but as I've written the evidence is simply not there that mental health issues cause gun violence https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/may/29/its-monstrously-wrong-to-blame-mental-health-for-school-shootings …Show this thread -
Oddly enough, one of the few things that DOES predict gun violence - previous domestic violence - is usually ignored by gun proponents
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You rarely see conservative politicians standing up and saying that we need better control over DV offenders, even though this is a very evidence-based strategy to reduce gun violence and violence against womenpic.twitter.com/Vkg8ZObBab
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So, we could perhaps say that DV offenders are "bad" people But aside from that? It's a problematic category
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Most people are "good" until they shoot someone. The idea that you can put guns in only "good" people's hands clearly nonsense
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What we CAN do - what Australia, the UK, and most other OECD nations have done - is keep guns out of virtually EVERYONE's hands
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This doesn't stop the die-hard criminals from getting firearms, perhaps. But they make up a tiny fraction of the total population of people who commit firearm offences
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So, for example, in Australia your average domestic abuser can't go down to the store, pick up a Glock, and go and shoot his partner
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And even the die-hard criminals have trouble getting GOOD weapons Raids on criminal stashes in Australia regularly turn up unregistered weapons...that are >50 years old!pic.twitter.com/MTrkmTez8p
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