Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: I'm okay with violent felons owning guns after they serve their sentence... [View all]EdwardBernays
(3,343 posts)Check it out yourself. You probably wouldn't believe me anyway.
As for Sociopaths being born, that's exactly the opposite of true. You're thinking of psychopaths:
" Psychology researchers generally believe that psychopaths tends to be born its likely a genetic predisposition while sociopaths tend to be made by their environment. (Which is not to say that psychopaths may not also suffer from some sort of childhood trauma.)"
http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2015/02/12/differences-between-a-psychopath-vs-sociopath/
Like I said earlier in this discussion some people do need to be removed from society. But.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychopathy
15-25% of people in prison are considered to be psychopaths/sociolaths. And yet, 50% of those incarcerated are violent criminals.
In the general 1% or less is considered to be either a sociopath or a psychopath. In the US though 0.08 percrntage is in prison. And 0.04 is in prison for violence.
Of course the percentage of psychopathy is the same in Europe, but Europe has much lower crime rates and smaller prison populations and lower recidivism rates.
And guess what, Americans have more access to guns to defend themselves and still suffer much more from crime than Europeans and Canadians who don't claim they need guns for defense from 1% of the population.