Tearing Apart The 4 Most Popular Gun Control Proposals Following Parkland

By Tom Knighton

It seems inevitable that we’re going to be engaged in this particular round of the gun control debate for the foreseeable future. The media is being as tenacious as I’ve ever seen them on the topic, and even I have to admit that trotting out teen survivors is an effective way to dominate the news cycle. Whether we want to or not, we’re going to have this debate.

With that in mind, I started taking a look at the most popular anti-gun proposals out there. While I know damn good and well that none of them will work worth a flip, apparently others don’t, so I’m going to take a moment to explain just why they won’t work.

The Assault Weapon Ban

Any time there’s a modern sporting rifle involved in a mass shooting, the anti-gun activists and politicians trot out this old chestnut. They come up with an all-new, better-than-ever assault weapon ban.

However, we had an assault weapon ban for a decade. From 1994-2004, we existed under such a law. When time for the law came to either be renewed or allowed to sunset, proponents claimed it had worked. After all, they said, crime was down from when the law was first …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms