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Epidemiologist. Writer (Guardian, Observer etc). "Well known research trouble-maker". PhDing at @UoW Host of @senscipod Email gidmk.healthnerd@gmail.com he/him

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    1. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018

      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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    2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018

      It's a weird statement when you think about it - what defines "good" and what defines "bad"?

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    3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018

      Some people use criminal convictions, but we know that criminality doesn't necessarily predict gun violence

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    4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018

      Whereas many people who are "good" guys will go on to eventually murder using firearms

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    5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018

      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 …

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    6. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018

      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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    7. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018

      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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    8. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018

      So, we could perhaps say that DV offenders are "bad" people But aside from that? It's a problematic category

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      Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018

      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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        2. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018

          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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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018

          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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        4. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018

          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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        5. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018

          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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        2. THMD‏ @thancockMD 7 Jun 2018
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          But isn’t it also problematic to think we could pass laws to keep guns out of the hands of people that have no regard for laws (ie criminals or “bad guys”)?

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        3. Health Nerd‏Verified account @GidMK 7 Jun 2018
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          Not at all. There are, of course, gangs/career criminals who you're unlikely to affect, but they are the outliers. Most people who commit crimes follow most laws!

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