The Alec Baldwin Effect.

https://www.menshealth.com/health/a62761542/mens-health-guns-survey-full-results/

I'm linking to the video because I don't have a subscription to Men's Health, and I'm suspecting that a lot of you don't have one either.

This survey is interesting, but not surprising.

Before hitting the pay wall, it's shown that men who own one gun are two times as likely to have fired a gun out of anger, 50% more likely to have fired a gun out of fear, a 60% higher rate of having threatened somebody with a gun, and a 25% higher rate of having injured somebody with a gun compared to men who own four or more guns.

As a guy who owns more than four guns, and has only used guns in performance, training, or for recreation, this doesn't surprise me too much.

The survey eventually shows that Democrats are more likely than Republicans to have fired a gun in anger, threatened somebody with a gun, and more than twice as likely than Republicans to have used a gun to get something that they wanted.

So, Democrat gun owners, despite having a lower rate of gun ownership than Republicans, are more likely to commit assaults with firearms, and more likely to be reckless with firearms.

So, why doesn't this surprise me at all?

Well, Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to see guns as instruments with a certain amount of agency. Democrats are far more likely than Republicans to view guns as instruments of aggression.

So, yeah, it doesn't surprise me that there's an overlap between Democrats who see guns as instruments of aggression and Democrats who own guns using them aggressively.

Maybe we should call this The Alec Baldwin Effect.