Study: Gun violence spreads like infectious disease

[Bruenor]

Sounds like part of that iron triangle of trouble TR was always talking about.

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news ... us-disease" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

He too believes that one's risk factor of getting shot increases if one associates oneself with others who have been shot.

Second part doesn't sound so bad depending on how you read it..

"If you base yourself around people who are running around with guns all the time and play the game and shoot them, yeah, you will most likely be caught up in the crossfire or be likely to carry a gun yourself,"

Why yes, most of my friends DO carry firearms.

Finally it's not so much the gun that's at fault but what you do when carrying it.. not sure how they let some actual facts squeak into their report.

If one associates with another who has just been shot, and the two commit a crime together, then one is even more likely to get shot.

https://www.statnews.com/2017/01/03/gun ... nfectious/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

He listed mental health, educational, and housing services, along with job training, as potential ways to interrupt the risks.

“We should think heavily about places, and how we might change places to interrupt gun violence as a disease,” he said. That includes cleaning up neighborhoods and revamping abandoned buildings and vacant lots. Previous controlled trials have shown that fixing up run-down neighborhoods has been successful in reducing violence in cities such as New Orleans.

Still not looking like a 'disease' to me.
People you hang out with.
What you are doing when you are hanging out (Co-offending ?)
Where you are hanging out.

[WY_Not]

Seems to me they could just leave "gun" out of the report entirely and focus on "violence" and the report would be much more accurate, useful, and meaningful. The tool is irrelevant, it is the behavior that is the problem.

[M-Quigley]

From the link:

"If you base yourself around people who are running around with guns all the time and play the game and shoot them, yeah, you will most likely be caught up in the crossfire or be likely to carry a gun yourself," he added.

That makes sense. Look and all the hundreds of deaths from shooting events like IPSC, IDPA, or machine guns shoot like Knob Creek. Or maybe perhaps there's some other factor besides the mere use of guns?

If one associates with another who has just been shot, and the two commit a crime together, then one is even more likely to get shot.

As Gibbs on NCIS would say, "Ya think?"

[rbel]

The liberal media loves to use the term "Gun Violence." You never see "Knife Violence" or Hammer Violence etc. They do this to drill into people's heads that somehow guns (an inanimate object) are violent and therefore the cause of violence. There goal is to make the two words interchangeable so that future generations will find gun bans more palatable, ie: since violence is bad guns are bad.The true infectious disease is the welfare state that has destroyed the family.

[TSiWRX]

The liberal media loves to use the term "Gun Violence." You never see "Knife Violence" or Hammer Violence etc. They do this to drill into people's heads that somehow guns (an inanimate object) are violent and therefore the cause of violence. There goal is to make the two words interchangeable so that future generations will find gun bans more palatable, ie: since violence is bad guns are bad.

^ This, +1.

How about just that violence is bad, period?

Guess that doesn't generate any headlines for ratings.