Margaret Winker On Gun Control

The prevalence of this unskilled and unaware effect has been demonstrated and discussed primarily in areas that appear to be generally harmless to those around the ’unskilled and unaware’. Writing a grammatically correct sentence, or making a profitable business decision, or being socially adept, while being poorly lacking, may be seem inconsequential. The one responsible for this lack of actual ability will be the only one facing any subsequent consequences. However, if someone was considered unskilled and unaware, would you give them a gun? I would think not. However, this point commands some attention and few have addressed the issue of how others’ incompetence can most certainly interfere in our lives in many damaging ways. With our
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Per an editorial by Margaret A. Winker, the dangers of those who own firearms are becoming a prominent public health concern. Winker urges a release of funds, previously frozen, that are meant to be allocated to gun control. Further, she reports that one person is killed every 17 minutes by a firearm, 609 people a week on average. In 2014, 35, 599 people were killed because of guns, of these, 63% were
Winker further urges that more research and work must be done to tame this issue and find better ways to evaluate and address gun control, safety, and education awareness. In a study aimed at tackling this issue, Emily Stark and Daniel Sachau performed nationally-representative survey to test if this phenomenon of firearms safety and use. This extensive survey considered people’s moral beliefs, political affiliations, gun control attitudes, gender, and firearm experience to ascertain any relevancies to these beliefs and people’s overestimation of their abilities as pertaining to firearms and safety. This study relied purely on self-reports. Stark predicted that male, pro-gun, and conservative participants would be more prone to the effect. The final sample 4,950 participants, primarily male, democrats were recruited through a Qualtrics survey across the US. Over 50% of people estimated they would be among the 90th percentile and 23% placed themselves in the top 1% of those able to be responsible gun owners. 65% of this population indicated they were above average in their knowledge of firearms and safety. Other findings