# Any studies re: psychopathic behavior when they don't have access to guns?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-studies-re-psychopathic-behavior-when-they-dont-have-access-to-guns/982823>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 17, 2023, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-studies-re-psychopathic-behavior-when-they-dont-have-access-to-guns/982823 "2023-04-17T23:01:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 3

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-studies-re-psychopathic-behavior-when-they-dont-have-access-to-guns/982823/44 "2023-04-19T19:29:02Z")

</div>

Please get back to the OP and drop these side issues about soldiers.

**DrDeth** , tread carefully, you’re making statements that look intended to derail the thread.

Everyone else, not an excuse to attack him or even talk about guns.

This thread is about:

## Any studies re: psychopathic behavior when they don’t have access to guns?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2023, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-studies-re-psychopathic-behavior-when-they-dont-have-access-to-guns/982823/46 "2023-04-19T19:34:13Z")

</div>

> [@DrDeth](#):
>
> But they do have the murders. “Gun deaths” is a bad term. Are we comparing murder rates or deaths by guns, which include suicides?

If you mention the word suicide in this thread again, you will be warned for it. This is a blatant derailing trick.

Also no arguments over “developed country”. This is not the thread for it and won’t be tolerated. I will just hide your post as it is too disruptive.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2023, 11:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-studies-re-psychopathic-behavior-when-they-dont-have-access-to-guns/982823/47 "2023-04-21T11:13:36Z")

</div>

> [@RickJay](#):
>
> No, actually, evidence does not indicate that. What the evidence - mountains of evidence - indicated is that a person, whether crazy or angry or whatever, is much likelier to kill if they have a firearm than if they have almost any other kind of weapon you can possibly name.

I heartily agree with your statement but, what I don’t agree with, is your interpretation of my statement. People were killing one another, sometimes in great numbers, long before the invention of gunpowder. Unless you’re saying all historical records are a fabrication, then my statement IS true. Anything you read into my statement beyond that is a false inference on your part.

I am a strong advocate for gun regulation/control. How people believe that we should regulate and control automobiles but not guns is nothing less than amazing to me.

[Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-studies-re-psychopathic-behavior-when-they-dont-have-access-to-guns/982823.md?page=2)