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| cyberninja45 said: Yes, the more people legally armed in an area and the more people know everyone is armed, the less shit stirred. Show me the study that shows opposite. Street gang violence happens when mostly only criminals have guns because of stupid gun laws. |
Actually, what most studies have shown is no reduction of crime at all, but instead more violent encounters because everyone use the tool of choice for every encounter. If you are packing and someone else is packing, any argument has a high probability that the dispute will be resolved with the main tool of choice. Studies have shone an increase in deadly encounters when more people actually conceal and carry.
Case in point, lets say you get in an argument with someone and they push you down, with all the stand your ground laws now, this would be the perfect opportunity to shoot that person in self defense. You reaching for your gun would be the perfect time to the other person to kill you in self defense.
You start a fight but you are getting your butt kicked, well you pull out your gun in self defense. You see a robbery, you pull out your gun. You witness a fight, you pull out your gun. What studies have shone is that the gun become the most common tool used for every incident so each encounter escalate. Living in places where everyone is armed actually does not make you feel safer, it make you more paranoid because any encounter can end with someone resolving it with a gun.
Last edited by Machiavellian - on 01 June 2022
