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From left, Rep. Madeleine Dean, D-Pa., Rep. Lucy McBath, D-Ga., and Rep. Mary Gay Scanlon, D-Pa., celebrate as the House Judiciary Committee passes the “Protecting Our Kids Act,” a series of Democratic gun control measures. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) America has a violence problem. Unfortunately, the conversation about how to address that problem is dominated by the gun-control paradigm: the idea that the solution to American violence is more gun control. That’s worse than unhelpful — it’s actually getting in the way of more productive thinking and real solutions.
If we’re really serious about tackling American violence — and not just punishing, spiting, or marginalizing gun owners — there are other ways to look at the problem and develop effective solutions. What’s wrong with the gun control paradigm?
First of all, gun control doesn’t work as intended. Any connection between gun policy and violence is pretty tenuous . Making the case for gun control by comparing peaceful western Europe to (comparatively) violent America is, under even modest scrutiny, simplistic to the point of being unserious.
But even if gun control was effective, it would still be problematic. Because gun control burdens the free exercise of the constitutionally-protected right to bear arms, it is always subject to compelling legal challenges and is flatly rejected by a significant proportion of the population. In addition, the enforcement of stringent gun control invariably inflicts commensurately heavy burdens upon other civil liberties — especially in poorer communities and among marginalized populations . Gun control’s coexistence with the values of a free society is, at best, an uneasy one.
Take, for example, the often-proposed idea of “universal background checks,” a policy which would, for example, prohibit someone from selling a firearm to his friend without a background check. Consider: these are transactions which can take place in […]
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