Categorize the control mentality

[sarisataka]

12. Thanks for the reply

I can appreciate honesty even if I am firmly opposed to the viewpoint expressed.

I just want to do a quick cost/benefit of a gun ban vs increased crime. For simplicity I will use the 2014 FBI crime stats-

There were an estimated 1,165,383 violent crimes (murder and non-negligent homicides, rapes, robberies, and aggravated assaults) reported by law enforcement.

Aggravated assaults accounted for 63.6 percent of the violent crimes reported, while robberies accounted for 28.0 percent, rape 7.2 percent, and murders 1.2 percent.

https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/2015/september/latest-crime-stats-released/latest-crime-stats-released
I will use the low number, 500,000, for DGUs from the CDC report Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence - See more at: http://www.nationalacademies.org/hmd/Reports/2013/Priorities-for-Research-to-Reduce-the-Threat-of-Firearm-Related-Violence.aspx#sthash.rifljO0n.dpuf

The potential cost of a gun ban is an additional 318,000 aggravated assaults, 140,000 robberies and 36,000 rapes.

The benefit is 7000-8000 less murders and 19,000 less suicides.

Of course this assumes 100% effect in each category. It can be expected that differences would offset so any change that only affects guns but not underlying violence means we have 71 additional violent crime for each homicide prevented.

That may be acceptable to you but not to me. 71 people should not be expected to "take one for the team". Gun control divorced from any plan to address the root causes of violence is placebo that merely shifts the victim pool.