One of the myths about gun control that always annoys me is that there are discrete categories of "good guys" and "bad guys"pic.twitter.com/Y7kqXz8kj7
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Oddly enough, one of the few things that DOES predict gun violence - previous domestic violence - is usually ignored by gun proponents
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
So, we could perhaps say that DV offenders are "bad" people But aside from that? It's a problematic category
Most people are "good" until they shoot someone. The idea that you can put guns in only "good" people's hands clearly nonsense
What we CAN do - what Australia, the UK, and most other OECD nations have done - is keep guns out of virtually EVERYONE's hands
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
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
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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