Do you support stricter or laxer gun laws? In an article on Ozy, Fiona Zublin has proposed an alternative: restrict gun ownership to only women. Zublin cites the statistic that “of the 70 US mass shootings committed since 1982, just one perpetrator was a woman.” She says that the FBI continues to show that “men commit about 90 percent of homicides, and that firearms are the murder weapon of choice.” Take into account that women are three times less likely to own a gun than men, and that leaves women still nine times less likely to kill than men. It’s possible, Zublin admits, that the issue of gun deaths is gender neutral, and switching the gender of gun owners will simply change the gender that commits the most gun crimes. But, do you agree with Zublin that restricting gun ownership to just women could very well solve the US's problem with gun deaths?
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