Steve Sailer often makes the point that depolicing, or at least taking away police ability to look for illegal guns also takes away disincentives for knuckleheads to carry guns. As would lenient judges.
Expanding list of offences which prohibit gun ownership might have a decreasing marginal reward. At the moment the cut-off are individuals with moderate probability of harm or self-harm. If the cut-off is moved to low probability, the marginal effect will be difficult to observe.
Steve Sailer often makes the point that depolicing, or at least taking away police ability to look for illegal guns also takes away disincentives for knuckleheads to carry guns. As would lenient judges.
Expanding list of offences which prohibit gun ownership might have a decreasing marginal reward. At the moment the cut-off are individuals with moderate probability of harm or self-harm. If the cut-off is moved to low probability, the marginal effect will be difficult to observe.