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VA: We can’t cure mental illness, but we can get guns off the streets
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Mark A. Taff
Website: www.marktaff.com
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The answer: We have nearly 400 million guns circulating in this country. Some are available to just about anyone who wants to take others down. Yes, some of the killers are mentally ill. But though it is not within our power to eliminate mental illness from our country, it is within our power to make it as difficult as possible for both the mentally ill and other would-be killers to get their hands on those guns. To borrow a phrase from the Supreme Court in its better days, the Second Amendment is not a suicide pact. As chief executive of our commonwealth, will Mr. Youngkin help us do this? |
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No, you cannot get guns off the street. Cannot be done. You can 3-d print a gun these days... how are you ever going to stop that?
But if you try to get guns off the street with laws, you only deny guns to lawful people who would use them for self-defense, while doing nothing to stop the criminals who don't care about the law you passed. You would be taking away the means of self-defense of many innocent people, effectively sacrificing them to those who commit the ordinary kind of murder (that happens every day but doesn't make the national news) in order to try to save a few from a very rare kind of murder, the mass shooting.
Being willing to sacrifice thousands (and to violate the Constitution) to try to save a few dozen makes no sense. |
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