Guns Prevent Thousands of Crimes Every Day, Research Shows
How many lives are actually saved by gun ownership?
By Lawrence Reed
Foundation for Economic Education
August 23rd. 2019
Image credit: Oleg Volk
It never fails. A split-second after a mass shooting occurs, grandstanders and ideologues issue statements demanding new gun controls—even if the laws already on the books failed or the laws they want would have made no difference. Case in point: the tragic incidents in Dayton, Ohio, and El Paso, Texas, in early August 2019.
The message is clear: Guns cause violence. Tax them, take them, ban them, regulate them. Do something, maybe anything! Such knee-jerk, emotional responses are dangerous, writes Charles W. Cooke in National Review, “for when a nation sets up a direct pipeline between its emotions and its laws, it does not keep its liberty for long.”
Guns Don't Kill People, They Save Them
Liberty isn’t the only thing likely to be lost when gun laws are passed to appease emotions over reason, evidence, logic, and rights. Lives will most assuredly be lost, too. Lots of them.
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Guns Prevent Thousands of Crimes Every Day, Research Shows
How many lives are actually saved by gun ownership?
By Lawrence Reed
Foundation for Economic Education
August 23rd. 2019
Image credit: Oleg Volk
This should be hammered every time someone brings up the number of deaths caused by guns!No clause in the constitution could by any rule of construction be conceived to give congress a power to disarm the people. Such a flagitious attempt could only be made under some general pretence by a state legislature. But if in any blind pursuit of inordinate power, either should attempt it, this amendment may be appealed to as a restraint on both.
William Rawle - offered the position of the first Attorney General of the United States, by President Washington
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