Washington Examiner: Gun Control Is A Fantasy

By Tom Knighton

Every time there’s a mass shooting, a broken record kicks into gear. We hear the same things over and over again, particularly from the anti-gun left. They screech about how we need to “do something,” where that “something” is almost always gun control. They get outraged over any solutions that don’t cut at the average American’s sacred right to keep and bear arms.

Time and time again, the gun grabbers start grabbing for guns, but, as the Washington Examiner notes, gun control doesn’t work.

Once again, too, there were those whose contribution to debate was to sneer at people who offered prayers for the victims and their families, instead of advocating or promising gun control. Even if you set aside the sneers, there is a problem with their attitude, no matter how good their intentions are otherwise. Prayer might actually help. Gun control, on the other hand, doesn’t work and can’t work in the U.S. and is a fantasy now just as it ever was.

By “fantasy,” we mean to express several important facts that are ignored in this debate. It is fantasy as policy because stricter gun control, within the limits of what is considered reasonable today (i.e., anything …Read the Rest

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