Why ‘Guns Make Murder Easier’ Is Complete Nonsense

By Tom Knighton

Townhall Media/Beth Baumann

If you debate the Second Amendment on social media, you’ve heard it.

In this case, “it” would be the argument that guns make murder easier. I even acknowledged it when I wrote about a man who killed four people in California with a knife on Thursday.

While four people are dead, the thinking goes he could have killed so many more if he’d used a gun. They won’t accept that violent, evil people will still be both violent and evil regardless of whatever gun control laws exist.

Over at our sister site Red State, Brandon Morse offered his thoughts on that particular argument.

“Brandon, a gun will make it way easier to kill people than a knife. More people would have died if the killer had a gun,” is usually the comeback I get after noting that a killer will kill whether he has a gun or not.

And they’re not wrong. Guns make it far easier to kill people than using knives.

When it comes to these stories, though, there’s a complete disregard for how guns play a part in the lives of the law-abiding. When we see a complete absence of firearms in a society, we …Read the Rest

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