When I write about gun control, I generally make two arguments.
- First, criminals are lawbreakers, so the notion that they will be disarmed
because of gun control is a fantasy. Crooks and thugs who really want a gun will always have access to black-market weapons. - Second, to the extent that good people obey bad gun-control laws (and hopefully they won’t), that will encourage more criminal activity since bad people will be less worried about armed resistance.
These points are common sense, but they doesn’t seem to convince many leftists, who have a religious-type faith that good intentions will produce good results (they need to read Bastiat!).
Every so often, however, the other side accidentally messes up.
As part of its never-ending, ideologically driven campaign to undermine gun rights, the New York Times ran a big 5,000-plus word story last month about mass shootings. Creating hostility to guns…
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Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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