4/13/2005

More People Need Guns

For many years people have tried to make it politically incorrect to carry a gun. In the past few months we have heard of many shootings in our country. Because of these incidents many will cry for more restrictions on guns. In reality wouldn't more guns in the hands of the people be a better deterrent than regulation. The article "Gun Control: Shootings kindle concealed-weapons debate" debates these issues. If every person who went on a shooting spree were met by ten others who shot back wouldn't that be a better deterrent.

1 comment:

Dr. Tufte said...

I should've sent you all to John Lott's convocation.

Anyway, there is a lot of information out there, mostly on the pro-gun-control side of things.

One important issue is that the U.S. has always had a high murder rate, and that has been statistically linked to a history of lax enforcement, rather than guns.