Posted May 16, 2019 4:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

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Gun control is touted as a solution to so-called gun violence on a daily basis. Entire presidential campaigns have popped up this year centered primarily on this one issue.

Yet we’ve seen in England that getting rid of the guns doesn’t erase the problem. It simply shifts it to another form. Whereas they were worried about guns, now they have to deal with both that and an increase in knife crimes. So much so that they now consider kitchen cutlery as deadly weapons.

They supposedly got rid of the guns, but the violence has remained.

So what can we do? After all, while violent crime rates have been trending downward for decades, no one is going to be satisfied with a violent crime rate above zero. Nor should we. Violent crime is something no society should tolerate, and we don’t.

Where we run into problems is what should we do about it.

I’ve long maintained that the first thing we have to do is get to the roots of violence if we want to actually combat it. If we figure out the societal triggers for violence and combat those, then we won’t need gun control or knife …Read the Rest

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