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Another article...different set of studies https://science.howstuffworks.com/does-owning-a-gun-change-your-behavior-.htm …

Those both used the same study from 50 years ago. Weapons are *supposed* to change your behavior. If someone breaks into your house, with a gun you'll be more likely to step up and stop them rather than cower in your room. You know?

They both reference other studies too, right? I'm not sure they are supposed to impact your decision making in the ways the studies describe. Or if they are, that that is a good thing.

It's a matter of the confidence of a perceived advantage. This would happen to some professional fighters in bars, body builders, people who know martial arts... It's not a gun thing, it's a people thing.

That's a fine assumption. It makes sense. Not sure I agree it is that simple, but these are just opinions. As to a fighter in a bar, to me that's a bit silly. Lots harder to become that fighter than owning a gun, efficacy of gun damage far greater to more people...

The fighter may share the same bravado and violence-prone decision making, but the impact is lessened by the required intimacy of fist-violence (unless you are the target I suppose)

This is a very small percentage of the overall gun-violence problem regardless. Gun violence is mostly due to gang activity (usually related to illicit drugs), property crime, and domestic violence. And in the latter category, guns can serve as equalizers.

I think it probably plays a pretty big role in domestic violence, where I haven't seen any study or statistic imply any advantage for women as an equalizer. Some of the studies said it may play a big role in suicides as well.