Tom Knighton at Townhall.com has an article entitled This is the Attitude That Needs to Change on Guns. What attitude is that, you ask? The notion that if you make it more difficult for legal gun owners to access guns, somehow it will make it equally more difficult for illegal gun possesors. Sadly, that is not the case.
The problem that Aiken has, though, is a poor understanding of things, and he's got fewer excuses than most.
"If we make it too easy to get guns, the wrong people will get them. I know because my niece was killed by someone who got a gun despite the laws I literally just said would prevent it."
I don't mean to pick on Aiken, but his attitude about guns is far too common.
The problem is that people legitimately believe that gun control works and that if we make it harder for law-abiding citizens to get firearms then criminals will have an even harder time getting them. That's simply not true. We know it's not because the Department of Justice itself has looked at where the guns come from and it's not from lawful gun sales. Most of them come via theft or buying a stolen gun from someone else.
How are you going to regulate that?
Exactly so. People who are going to commit crimes with a gun are hardly going to be disuaded by laws preventing them from accessing a gun. It is the very definition of a criminal and an outlaw. Laws will never stop a criminal, because they do not care about laws. Period.
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