Not many hobbies allow such bad actors to fall through the cracks though. If someone is a bad actor with tennis, they don’t even go and whack tennis balls off of everyone’s heads in a school.
It’s a proactive vs reactive problem. Arresting someone for maybe possibly thinking about doing something doesn’t hold up in court. But having an action happen means harm was done which is not good of course.
Red flag laws being proposed are far from ideal and are seen as a major slippery slope of precedence for privacy and government intervention (think of how an administration could abuse it because odds are one will at some point)
Plenty of hobbies have majorly bad actors. At least once a year there’s someone else being outed as at best a sex pest, and often a straight up solicitor of minors, within the relatively small sphere of “people who play video games for clout” (speedrunners, streamers, indie game devs, esports folks, and assorted ecelebs).
The difference with firearms is the potential for direct loss of human life. Also important to note is that misuse is also much harder to cover up with a gun. Not like sexual harassment where if no one speaks up there is often minimal evidence to be found by the public.
But neither of those have any bearing on the amount of bad actors present. If anything they would indicate to me a lower ratio of bad actors, as fucked up as it feels to say that.
I wasn’t talking about the amount of bad actors. It’s the severity of what a bad actor can do. I understand your sexual harassment angle but I feel like that’s just trying to sidestep what I was saying.
Not many hobbies allow such bad actors to fall through the cracks though. If someone is a bad actor with tennis, they don’t even go and whack tennis balls off of everyone’s heads in a school.
It’s a proactive vs reactive problem. Arresting someone for maybe possibly thinking about doing something doesn’t hold up in court. But having an action happen means harm was done which is not good of course.
Red flag laws being proposed are far from ideal and are seen as a major slippery slope of precedence for privacy and government intervention (think of how an administration could abuse it because odds are one will at some point)
You are correct in what you are saying but I think you missed what I was trying to get at
Plenty of hobbies have majorly bad actors. At least once a year there’s someone else being outed as at best a sex pest, and often a straight up solicitor of minors, within the relatively small sphere of “people who play video games for clout” (speedrunners, streamers, indie game devs, esports folks, and assorted ecelebs).
The difference with firearms is the potential for direct loss of human life. Also important to note is that misuse is also much harder to cover up with a gun. Not like sexual harassment where if no one speaks up there is often minimal evidence to be found by the public.
But neither of those have any bearing on the amount of bad actors present. If anything they would indicate to me a lower ratio of bad actors, as fucked up as it feels to say that.
I wasn’t talking about the amount of bad actors. It’s the severity of what a bad actor can do. I understand your sexual harassment angle but I feel like that’s just trying to sidestep what I was saying.