The myth of the trigger happy vigilante

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2. Certainly a fair question.

Approximately 40 to 60% of gun homicides are committed by individuals who have had previous encounters with law enforcement. This is, admittedly, an assumption on my part but my assumption is that only a vanishingly small percentage of those encounters involve a gun homicide. That would imply lesser crimes with homicide being a higher crime hence the characterization that those who end-up committing gun homicides have moved along a trajectory of increasingly violent behavior.