Harvard Researcher Right About Reducing Violence, Wrong About Republicans

By Cam Edwards

Democrats are stuck talking about gun control when they should be promoting and expounding on proven strategies that actually reduce violence, or so says Harvard researcher Thomas Abt in an opinion piece for the Boston Globe. While I disagree with the partisan framing Abt brings to the issue, he’s absolutely right about one thing:

the candidates are still failing to focus on what is simultaneously the most serious and most solvable form of such violence: shootings and killings on the streets of our cities.

If you listen to any of the Democrats running for office, they’ll tell you we need gun licensing, registration, mandatory background checks, gun bans, red flag laws, one-gun-a-month laws, and more. What they won’t tell you, in fact what they can’t tell you, is how any of those laws would actually prevent criminals from illegally obtaining guns. These laws are all aimed at legal gun owners, and the goal is to reduce the number of legal gun owners in the hopes of some trickle-down effect taking place among criminals as well. The gun control advocates and anti-gun politicians don’t like guns, so their first (and usually only) instinct is to consider a solution that’s dependent on …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms