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\nYes, they\u2019re coming for our guns. No, they can\u2019t have them without a fight.<\/p>\n
Academic says quiet part out loud on gun control<\/a><\/p>\n Anyone who engages in discussions on gun control has undoubtedly been told that no one is coming for our guns; that all anyone wants to do is to keep firearms from falling into the wrong hands. All those regulations they\u2019re proposing? Those are just for criminals.<\/p>\n Now, we all know this is BS. Things like assault weapon bans, for example, result in taking people\u2019s guns sooner or later. Just because that\u2019s not what they\u2019re saying no doesn\u2019t mean that\u2019s not where we\u2019re eventually going to head.<\/p>\n Enter a discussion about President Joe Biden\u2019s new Office of Gun Violence Prevention over at China Daily.<\/p>\n Yes, it\u2019s China talking about US gun policy\u2013a subject I think I\u2019ve been pretty clear about my feelings on\u2013but in there, we find someone who\u00a0may have just said the part<\/a>\u00a0gun control fans are supposed to keep quiet.<\/p>\n Jeffrey Fagan, an expert on policing, crime and gun control and Professor of Law at Columbia Law School in New York, said: \u201cEvery little bit helps, including research, to slow the epidemic of gun violence. However,\u00a0unless there are strong measures to reduce the supply of firearms, and also the legality of firearms, this will have little effect on the unacceptably high rates of both lethal and nonlethal firearm violence.\u201d<\/strong><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n (Emphasis added)<\/p>\n Now, let\u2019s take a look at that bolded section for a moment. We\u2019re going to take that in order\u2013don\u2019t worry, we\u2019ll get to the \u201clegality\u201d thing in a moment.<\/p>\n There are an estimated 400 million firearms in private hands in the United States. The Second Amendment also protects our right to keep and bear arms.<\/p>\n Yet Fagan here has argued that we need to reduce the supply of firearms. Not the supply of black market guns or guns in criminal hands, but guns in general. That despite ample evidence that it\u2019s those guns in particular that represent a problem with regard to violent crime.<\/p>\n As such, that means reducing guns for law-abiding citizens to some degree or another.<\/p>\n The easy thought is to assume Fagan simply means restricting the purchase of firearms in general in some manner, such as gun rationing or some similar policy.<\/p>\n The problem there is that with 400 million firearms already in circulation and the fact that firearms are generally durable, meaning they don\u2019t necessarily wear out or anything if properly maintained, that number isn\u2019t going to decrease on its own. Every gun purchase adds to the availability of firearms.<\/p>\n That means that, at some point, you\u2019re going to have to remove firearms from circulation as a whole. The only way that can happen is via gun confiscation.<\/p>\n You can\u2019t just make guns vanish otherwise. You can\u2019t reduce the availability of guns without that.<\/p>\n Fagan makes reference to the legality of firearms, suggesting he wants to make them less legal to own in some manner. This likely includes things like assault weapon bans and other restrictions, particularly those lacking some kind of grandfather clause that would allow those who already have such weapons to keep them.<\/p>\n Again, that whole gun confiscation thing.<\/p>\n But we need to remember that the legality of firearms is preserved via the Second Amendment. You can\u2019t just wish that away no matter how much you want to. So long as the Second Amendment stands, you\u2019re not going to be able to really do much of anything about the legality of guns no matter how much you favor gun control.<\/p>\n This is one problem gun control is always going to have.<\/p>\n What\u2019s more, following the Bruen decision, it\u2019s clear that one will be hard-pressed to find gun control regulations existing at the time of the Second Amendment that would be an analog for any restriction you could pass today that would restrict the legality of guns in general.<\/p>\n Now, one can imagine gun control advocates dismissing Fagan\u2019s comments as just the words of a single academic, that they\u2019re not reflected in the gun control community as a whole. I disagree, especially since we saw Gabby Giffords, founder of one of the biggest anti-gun groups out there,\u00a0argue for \u201cno more guns.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n I\u2019m sorry, but I can\u2019t buy that this is just a fringe opinion.<\/p>\n Yes, they\u2019re coming for our guns.<\/p>\n No, they can\u2019t have them without a fight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" BLUF Yes, they\u2019re coming for our guns. No, they can\u2019t have them without a fight. Academic says quiet part out loud on gun control Anyone who engages in discussions on gun control has undoubtedly been told that no one is coming for our guns; that all anyone wants to do is to keep firearms from … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enemies-foreign-domestic","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96340"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96341,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96340\/revisions\/96341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Reduce the supply of firearms<\/h4>\n
Reducing the legality of firearms<\/h4>\n