"The organization doesn’t just aim to take guns off the street. They set out to provide health care, social security nets, and alternative options for people, attempting to lessen the social disparities that could lead to gun violence."srothstein wrote: ↑Sat Oct 23, 2021 8:19 pm While I do not agree with the article and could not make my way through the whole thing, I wanted to point out that she is one of the few who are not blaming guns and gun-owners for the violence. She is not proposing that the solution is banning guns or anything like that. I don't agree with the concept of remaking society overall, as that is just another way of saying socialism will solve all the ills of the world. But I want to point out that maybe her realization that good people with guns is not the problem can be expanded on to others.
She also has some criminological science to back her up. There are several variations of strain theory, but the basic concept is that people commit crimes as a result of strain they feel from other societal pressures. This is a widely accepted theory that many criminologists work on. My problem with it is the lack of explanation of why two people will react differently to the exact same pressures, one committing crime and the other not.
“I think when we talk about the future of gun violence, it’s really easy to say, ‘I want to see background checks,’ ‘I want to see assault weapons banned,’ ‘I want to see universal availability of extremist protection orders,’” says Fleisher. “All of those things are vital, and they’re necessary, and I want to see them too. But I think that we have to think bigger than that.”
She does want gun bans too.