Steve CoxKonto zweryfikowane

I'm running for congress. How about you?

I saw that, your webpage took so long to load, I thought maybe it was fake ... heh. Am reading your positions now, safe to assume I'll see your a holistic improvement plan there? Or is it Twitter lip service?

Certainly a thought out position staking out guns, the things, not being the problem. A lot of stats to wade through. And kudos for trying to make the change you believe in.

It seems like your stats based approach ignores some societal differences...swiss conscription leading to a trained population, whatever influences time stats in Russia vs Honduras, etc. Maybe that's your point?

Those differences don't make someone shoot up a school or commit a drive-by against a rival gang. Being poor, lacking available mental healthcare, having a criminal record for a victimless crime previously... Those might make someone do those things.

No, does not account for motivation...just efficacy, right?

Both. Nothing happens in a vacuum. Gang members are born the same as everybody else. Circumstances make them gang members. The war on drugs causes the violence there.

Agreed, but that's just motivation for violence. I've seen studies that show people behave differently when holding guns (more bravado, more confrontational), but I haven't ever really thought that guns cause violence, just honed the efficiency of it.