How Fear and Social Pressure Are 'Overarming' the U.S.
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#2The whole concept of optimal levels of firearms ownership should have been expanded upon, as this premise is probably new to the audience and a cornerstone of their entire research.
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#3Are people who are armed because they enjoy shooting or hunting supposed to exist in this research model or not?
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#4Are people who are armed because they enjoy shooting or hunting supposed to exist in this research model or not?
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#5Are people who are armed because they enjoy shooting or hunting supposed to exist in this research model or not?
Does it matter? Control of you life is your basic human right. Firearms are the great equalizer.
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#7Are people who are armed because they enjoy shooting or hunting supposed to exist in this research model or not?
Yes. In fact, the ‘Results’ section in the paper linked from the article (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.aed3904) says, in its first sentence:
Any analysis of individual arming decisions must account for purely individual reasons to own guns (e.g., for use in hunting) and the cost of possible confrontations that are ubiquitous in society and, depending on others’ arming decisions, can involve guns (e.g., fear of a confrontation with an armed neighbor).
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#8Anecdotally, a lot of politically far left people I know have gone quiet on the firearms issue. It seems like the state of the country has 2A suddenly making more sense to a lot of people.
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#9Do they ever state the social optimum level of fun ownership? I can take them at their word they it’s non-zero, but I’d guess it’s orders of magnitude less than the current rate.
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#10Boy, the game of telephone on the way to HN is really amazing.
Paper: We make a stylized model that uses observed social networks in Honduran gangs and varies some parameters to match the US to see and it aligns with some things regarding how we exceed the socially optimal balance (based on the params).
PR release: The researchers describe in Science Advances how individual incentives to buy firearms can lead to a phenomenon they call “overarming.”
PR title: How Fear and Social Pressure Are ‘Overarming’ the U.S.
HN title: Fear and Social Pressure Are ‘Overarming’ the U.S.
Come on, guys.