02-22-2021, 05:45 PM
(02-22-2021, 05:31 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: You know what would benefit them more AND cause decreased rates of gun violence? Meaningful reforms to improve their socioeconomic situations. Gun violence correlates to these socioeconomic issues. But because affecting real change is difficult and, let's be honest here, those in power don't want to help those marginalized communities when it really comes down to it, they like to focus on guns which will not solve anything. Gun will still be obtained because that box is wide open and even if you could magically confiscate all of them, there would still be violence in other forms.
You keep saying it correlates to socioeconomic issues, but it much more closely correlates to access to guns. There are roughly 300k guns stolen each year, imagine if there wasn't a constant influx of stolen guns into these communities? Stolen guns are often ditched at the crime scene because there is no tie to them and it's riskier to keep it than leave them. That means there is still a really high demand for more inventory, which means you can over time stifle the use of stolen guns in crimes by requiring people to be accountable for their own firearms. That or people will keep them over ditching them which will lead to a higher solved crime rate.
Simply requiring people to report a gun that is stolen in a timely manner seems like common sense, but apparently, that is asking too much. Quickly reporting a gun stolen can lead to the police being able to attempt to find it before it is lost into the black market. In one study they found that states with mandatory reporting laws resulted in a 30% decrease in stolen guns being recovered at the scene of a crime in another state. Essentially those guns became less desirable because it was more likely they were being actively looked for.
