Today's LA Times editorial following the devastating mass-shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut is looking at the gun-control issue from the wrong angle, as usual.
This world is a tragic world, and taking away the means for evil people to perpetrate tragedies will not remove the source of these outcomes, which is the evil that lurks in the shadows of the hearts of men. Larry Elder emphasized this point.
Forty states have "right to bear arms" legislation on their books, with commensurate low crime rates. Sadly, while Connecticut is one of those states, their legislation has an embedded a limitation which requires gun carriers to ask permission before bringing a firearm onto campus. Rescinding this provision would provide better protection on our schools. Until states liberalize concealed weapon "carry zones", schools will remain easy targets for mass murderers.
The Cato Institute has refuted the argument that increased access to firearms leads to an increase in gun homicides, as well. Following an exhaustive review of gun-control studies, the National Academy of Sciences has documented that gun control laws do not deter crime.
Instead of getting rid of guns, expanding the ownership of guns will protect us. After the Supreme Court ruling District of Columbia v. Heller, Washington D.C. murder rates plummeted. in Moore and Shepard and v. Madigan, after issuing their ruling to strike down Chicago's concealed weapons bad, Judge Richard Posner wrote:
The theoretical and empirical evidence is consistent with concluding that a right to carry firearms in public may promote self-defense.
I rest my case.
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