MSNBC recently published an opinion piece by Hayes Brown titled, “There’s One Thing That United Mass Shooters”, in which the author concludes:
“Guns are weapons of destruction no matter who wields them. Their capacity to kill is not limited by identity or ideology. It’s therefore all but a fool’s errand to focus on individual mass shooters. In the end, it is only their ability to obtain these readily available instruments of death that unites them.”
And the author is exactly right. If we had no guns in America, the number of mass shootings would be zero. The flaw in liberal gun control logic is that a gun-free America is somehow possible. To date, every gun law proposed by liberals only achieves one thing – the disarming law abiding citizens. Those proposed laws do nothing to deny guns to folks who have no interest in following the law. So, the question is this? How many mass murderers would be dissuaded from killing if they knew that owning a gun was against the law and they could be prosecuted for it? The answer is obviously zero. If a person is willing to violate a law against murder, it goes without saying that they will have no issue with violating a gun law.
So, this leaves us with just one question – will the gun laws proposed by liberals make it harder for a criminal to buy a gun? Liberals mistakenly believe the answer to this question is yes. But all evidence points to the contrary. We currently have a law against many drugs – e.g. cocaine, meth, and heroine. Are those drugs difficult to buy on the street? Unfortunately, the answer is no. Making something illegal does not stop its sale or possession. It merely transfers the transaction from a regulated process to an illegal enterprise. The fact is that the same criminal element that is responsible for drug trafficking and sales in America would be all too willing to add guns to their criminal enterprise. Drug dealers do not deal in drugs because of some deep seeded love of that commodity. They do it for the money. The minute any particular weapon is outlawed, it becomes a commodity for these criminal organizations. Thus, illegal firearms trafficking follows the same supply and distribution networks as drugs.
Despite making drugs illegal and mounting a national effort to curtail them, drug deaths increased five-fold from 1999 to 2021. Clearly the laws that have made drugs illegal have had no impact on reducing the availability of drugs. There is no evidence that guns would fare any better. In fact, the more likely scenario is that a ban on guns would lead to increased gun deaths, just as we have seen with drugs. The only way to reduce gun violence is to reduce the demand for illegal guns. And gun bans do just the opposite. Just as with illegal drugs, the in-fighting amongst illegal gun traffickers is bound to result in more violence on our streets, not less.
The bottom line is that while a world without guns would indeed bring about an end to gun violence, that is a fantasy world. The real world will always have guns – legal or illegal. Contrary to Mr. Brown’s statement above, the only way to stem the tide of mass murder is to identify and remove from society those that show violent tendencies
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