Gun Control/Ban Critique

Today more than ever gun control is at the forefront of the national spotlight with many clamoring for what they perceive is gun control. This article by m2c4 aims to show the path toward progress in relation to gun control. The writer brings many examples of how legislators are beginning to enact stricter gun laws at the state level such as Florida raising the age to buy a gun to twenty-one. Also mentioned is, in South Carolina, a seven percent tax on firearms has been proposed which would go toward funding security for schools.What fails to resonate with me is the lack of evidence that any of these actions create any kind of change in gun violence, especially when talking about even stricter gun laws. The idea that the gun debate has turned a corner and is headed toward the absolute resolution is ludicrous and a sad political stunt in anticipation for elections. The evidence for any of these laws working toward a safer community is flat out not there, as it always is when people talk about gun control/bans. most ideas work perfectly in theory, but the real world is not theory. People have to look at actual statistics and see the root of the problem has not been exposed by the national public and that is poverty and mental health. Not solving these issues is going to lead to no progress in way of violence, by gun or by whatever else, such as knives which are close to four times as deadly when compared to rifles/ar15s/semi auto rifles/ whatever else uninformed public call them. So, instead of banning knives we should instead support our communities and solve the real culprits, above mentioned. Putting security guards in schools is the perfect solution for me, which the author does not make clear they support or not. Giving these jobs to veterans, cops, or other upstanding, willing members of the community would take the target off of schools, as the shooters to be would understand that there is someone waiting for them with a gun, not people with no way to defend themselves.