Aversion to Risk

[techaholic]

It's all a function of aversion to risk. All animals have a built in aversion to risk that over time gets honed and refined by their environment. If you learn that you can run a read light 99 times out of a hundred and not get caught, you will run them more often

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[nausved]

I don't know that I would call guns equalizers: criminals will still have the upper hand.

Firstly, people who intend to use guns will be much more likely to be good at using guns than people who keep them around for emergency use; that is, the average criminal will be a better gunslinger than the average non-criminal

[techaholic]

Domestic Violence is almost always a bare handed crime. suicide is a result of depression, not guns. there are hundreds of ways to off oneself with household items. anyone with access to a car or a kitchen knife or a belt could take themselves out of the gene pool without wasting a bullet

[nausved]

Domestic violence does occasionally involve guns and I would imagine that in households where guns are more accessible, domestic violence via guns would increase. Abusive relationships might also become more severe, as abused family members may be more afraid to seek help

[techaholic]

I understand your point about training, and I encourage such voluntary behavior, but I don't believe that people should need a license to drive a car either. and I think that driving lessons should start (voluntarily mind you) at about age ten, in the form of go-carts. the physics lessons you learn on a go cart track do transfer to the road. The earlier you learn these skills, the more ingrained in your overall thought process they become.