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In reply to the discussion: Police say gunman kills three in Idaho shooting spree [View all]JonLP24
(29,929 posts)I didn't believe you did say ignore gun owners, no focus on demographics & specific groups in certain areas where violent crime is concentrated. I assumed the implication in the word focus (based on context) but ignore gun owners wasn't it. I took it as a dragnet style approach(not necessarily that, just the implication) to solve a problem by going after a group "gun owners" who we can all agree, not all gun owners commit crimes with guns but instead apply it to "demographics" which would alienate the people in those demographics that don't commit gun violence which alienate people which also had irony in to solve gun violence don't alienate gun owners, focus on demographics instead.
I wasn't talking solutions, just chipping away what was behind demographics which is a group defined by whatever it is, gun owners is a demographic for example, so you had an odd way of saying don't lump gun owners together.
Solutions depend on the problem. If someone had a problem or wanted to make it illegal for anyone owning guns, doesn't matter who, then disarming law abiding legal gun owner works. There is always a threat though, maybe 0.0001% - whatever but the odds are there. The law abiding legal gun owner who then commits a crime with his legally owned gun, that person was certainly a threat to society.
I didn't catch the problem or what it is in a thread with subthreads all over but this is to a story in Moscow, Idaho. If a problem relates to preventing something that happened in Moscow, I don't think focusing on demographics is going to help stop another Moscow in a place like Moscow.