Richard Munday, Times of London, asks, “Wouldn’t you feel safer with a gun? [1]”
Despite the recent spate of shootings on our streets, we pride ourselves on our strict gun laws. Every time an American gunman goes on a killing spree, we shake our heads in righteous disbelief at our poor benighted colonial cousins. Why is it, even after the Virginia Tech massacre, that Americans still resist calls for more gun controls?
The short answer is that “gun controls” do not work: they are indeed generally perverse in their effects.
A free man, is able to carry arms when and whee he pleases. A slave does so only with his master’s permission. Do you wish to be free or a slave?