Opposing the Opposing View of More Gun Control as a Solution

By Jeff Knox

Opinion

Buckeye, AZ –-(Ammoland.com)- My brother Chris and I were invited to submit an “Opposing View” editorial to USA Today newspaper last week, in advance of the student “March for Our Lives” events scheduled for March 24 2018.

We’ve done these types of editorials in USA Today a few times in the past, and appreciate the opportunity to share our side of the story with a wider audience.

Still, it is always a somewhat troubling experience because we are offered very little space, typically only 300 words. That’s not a lot. On top of that, the Editorial Board gives themselves almost twice as many words to express their view. And while they insisted that we provide links to validate our claims, they don’t seem to be quite as worried about showing chapter and verse for their own assertions.

The biggest problem with the USA Today Editorial Board’s position proceeds from a seriously flawed assumption: that gun control laws can reduce “gun violence.”

They begin their editorial questioning whether the students can “push an immovable Congress to do more to fight gun violence?”

To reply directly to the question, it’s very possible that the …Read the Rest

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