Would A Gun Ban Reduce Gun Deaths?

By Tom Knighton

We who support the Second Amendment have long argued that gun bans are ineffective, that all it will do is disarm the law-abiding and do nothing to stop criminals from acquiring and using guns. After all, gun crime happens in the UK. Clearly gun bans don’t actually work.

Well, Cam Edwards took a swing at the claim and made some very interesting points worth considering over at America’s First Freedom.

According to a recently released Quinnipiac poll, young Americans like the college students at Slippery Rock University are the least likely to support a ban on semi-automatic firearms, even when they are described as “assault weapons.” It may be that, because these millennials have grown up in an era where modern sporting rifles are the most common rifle sold, they don’t find the guns to be scary and unusual. It may also be that these millennials are increasingly skeptical of the idea that bans really work. As they’ve gotten older, they’ve seen states across the country buck federal law to decriminalize or legalize cannabis. At the same time, they’ve seen the cost of illegal drugs like methamphetamine, heroin and fentanyl drop dramatically, and drug overdoses skyrocket …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms