Vox Thinks It’s Time To ‘Go Big’ On Gun Control

By Tom Knighton

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Vox is perhaps one of the most liberal publications in the country right now, and that’s saying something. Because of that, most of its writers are likely in something of an ideological bubble. It’s not difficult to have that happen, especially when much of your ideology revolves around shunning people who disagree with you.

As such, I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised when a Vox writer thinks the issue with gun control is that Democrats aren’t going big enough.

To change the status quo, Democrats should go big. They need to focus on the abundance of guns in the US and develop a suite of policies that directly tackle that issue, from licensing to confiscation to more aggressive bans of certain kinds of firearms (including, perhaps, all semiautomatic weapons or at least some types of handguns).

I am not naive. I don’t think that this would lead to sweeping Australian- or UK-style gun control legislation passing in 2021. But this broader conversation has to start somewhere.

The time is now. The NRA is in chaos, as its leadership is caught in a civil war. The Parkland, Florida, activists have forced …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms