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.
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.
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.
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.