One of the common mantras put forth by those who push for more gun control is the idea that more gun control leads to less crime. Or, at least, less violent crime.
Now, anyone who has been reading posts on this site for any amount of time knows that that simply isn’t true. Researcher John Lott has shown repeatedly the fallacy of the idea that gun control saves lives.
(If you doubt that, look into the “research” that says that gun control saves lives and see how many lives that it says that defensive gun use, which often just requires the gun to be present and seen, not fired, saves. Pro-gun control “research” almost never factors defensive gun use into their conclusions.)
And because people buy into the nonsense argument that gun control saves lives, we end up with mass shootings where someone ignores gun control laws (or gets a gun legally within those laws… meaning that the laws didn’t do their “job” of keeping firearms out of the hands of violent people), and no one who is law-abiding is able to shoot back… because the victims followed the law and didn’t have their guns with them.
Tragically, that happens in many places in the world, as we saw again recently. Jacki Thrapp writes,
At least six people were killed when a gunman opened fire at a market in Poland on Nov. 7.
A gunman allegedly fired shots from a moving car just after 3 p.m. local time at Main Market Square, an urban area in the southern city of Krakow.
The attack happened on Slawkowska Street, a tourist hotspot in the northern corner of Main Market Square, about a quarter of a mile long, lined with cafes, hotels, and museums.
At least 15 people were injured in the shooting.
The shooter had several firearms after getting his gun permit eight months ago at the time of this writing, and he wore a bulletproof vest when shooting.
In other words, this guy went out of his way to try to prolong the evil.
And Poland has gun control stricter than much of the U.S. which shows that gun control fails. And it fails everywhere, not just in the U.S.
We need to stop pushing gun control and to actually focus on doing things that can actually reduce gun violence. But the side of the political aisle pushing gun control isn’t interested in doing that. What does that say about their intentions?