This Writer’s Plan To “Disarm America” Has One Major Flaw

By Cam Edwards

I’ll admit it. A headline that promises a plan to disarm America is gonna get my click. There’s no way I can resist reading a column that touts a way to remove hundreds of millions of firearms from the legal possession of tens of millions of Americans. And in fact, Splinter‘s Jack Crosbie doesn’t think we can actually get every gun out there. Or, as he puts it:

The reality, I think, is that a truly gun-free America is impossible—firearms will always be a tool of violence and power in the modern world. The hope is that eventually, we can choose and control how the power to kill is applied in a way that kills the fewest people.

Of course, that isn’t what Crosbie wants at all. What he wants is to make it has hard as possible to own a gun and exercise your rights. His argument is couched in terms of public safety, but he ignores real strategies that could dramatically reduce gun-related violence without a single new gun control law in favor of enacting virtually every gun control law imaginable.

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Source:: Bearing Arms