Are Mass Shootings More A Failure Of Law Enforcement Than Anything Else?

By Tom Knighton

Mass shootings are horrendous things, something that I sincerely wish I would never have to write about again except maybe in a retrospective post about when they seemed to happen far too regularly. They’re awful things.

One thing that happens after such events is renewed vigor in the gun debate. Anti-gun crusaders use the corpses of the dead as a platform to push their agenda, then lash out at any pro-gun rhetoric as being somehow out of line in light of what happened.

The thing is, there has to be a reason why these events happen, one completely independent of firearm access. After all, millions of people have guns, yet only a tiny few commit these atrocities.

Over at The Volokh Conspiracy, there’s an interesting examination of some similarities in three major mass shootings.

The Stockton murderer could have been stopped before he started if the government had enforced existing criminal laws or had used existing laws to commit and provide mental health treatment for a plainly disturbed and imminently dangerous individual. The same has been true for many subsequent mass killers. In an article for the Howard Law Journal, Clayton Cramer and I …Read the Rest

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