[spaginal]

The existence of weapons in a population also serves as a deterrence and a check against more criminal activity bleeding out into the general population as a whole.

A part of the reason you see so much mass shooting activity in gun free areas is the general likelihood that you won’t encounter someone else with a firearm immediately. Same reason gang activity tends to concentrate instead of fan out.

The trend that bothers me in western society is the almost gleeful willingness to having rights stripped from us that were hard fought for. All for the illusion of safety and civility. As if simply silencing people or disarming people makes the original problem go away instead of just hiding it. It’s unsettling.

[colechristensen]

>The existence of weapons in a population also serves as a deterrence and a check against more criminal activity bleeding out into the general population as a whole.

You hear this quite a lot. It seems it could be provably true or false, has anyone tried?