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If Gun Control Works, Why Are Chicago’s Kids Getting Shot?
While America is swept up in a wave of discussions circling around gun control issues, the media narrative has overwhelmingly framed the call for stricter gun control measures as much-needed reforms to create a safer place for children.
As celebrities cry out for stricter gun control and as grandstanding politicians move to the forefront of the crowd to call for “common sense” hindrances upon gun ownership, all while shouting, “for the children,” the debate has boiled down to a question of what is logic-based and what is emotion-based.
Everybody wants to stop gun violence. Everybody certainly does not want tragedy wrought upon innocent children. But many studies have shown that gun control measures are ineffective at stopping shootings by the hand of a criminal with mal-intent.
Recently, The New Yorker, a bastion of liberal ideology since 1925, discussed the recent tragedy in Newtown and claimed,
“The overwhelming majority of those children would have been saved with effective gun control. We know that this is so, because, in societies that have effective gun control, children rarely, rarely, rarely die of gunshots. Let’s worry tomorrow about the problem of Evil. Let’s worry more about making sure that when the Problem of Evil appears in a first-grade classroom, it is armed with a penknife.”
However, this really isn’t the case. Chicago, a town with arguably the strictest gun control policies in the country, saw an astounding 440 school-age children shot by firearms! While it should be noted that not all who were shot died from their wounds, the actual number of children killed was around 60- far too high for a city that prides itself on its long history of fierce gun control policies.
Furthermore, the number is not even an anomaly. The year before, Chicago saw 319 children of school-age shot.
Violence happens. Monsters run around in society, unchecked and undeterred by knowing that their guns- the instruments for destruction- are illegal. If places with strict gun control policies like Chicago, Washington D.C. and Newark serve as an illustration for the kind of peace America can expect from enhanced gun control measures, we should all question if gun control is any kind of solution at all.
If Gun Control Works, Why Are Chicago’s Kids Getting Shot?
While America is swept up in a wave of discussions circling around gun control issues, the media narrative has overwhelmingly framed the call for stricter gun control measures as much-needed reforms to create a safer place for children.
As celebrities cry out for stricter gun control and as grandstanding politicians move to the forefront of the crowd to call for “common sense” hindrances upon gun ownership, all while shouting, “for the children,” the debate has boiled down to a question of what is logic-based and what is emotion-based.
Everybody wants to stop gun violence. Everybody certainly does not want tragedy wrought upon innocent children. But many studies have shown that gun control measures are ineffective at stopping shootings by the hand of a criminal with mal-intent.
Recently, The New Yorker, a bastion of liberal ideology since 1925, discussed the recent tragedy in Newtown and claimed,
“The overwhelming majority of those children would have been saved with effective gun control. We know that this is so, because, in societies that have effective gun control, children rarely, rarely, rarely die of gunshots. Let’s worry tomorrow about the problem of Evil. Let’s worry more about making sure that when the Problem of Evil appears in a first-grade classroom, it is armed with a penknife.”
However, this really isn’t the case. Chicago, a town with arguably the strictest gun control policies in the country, saw an astounding 440 school-age children shot by firearms! While it should be noted that not all who were shot died from their wounds, the actual number of children killed was around 60- far too high for a city that prides itself on its long history of fierce gun control policies.
Furthermore, the number is not even an anomaly. The year before, Chicago saw 319 children of school-age shot.
Violence happens. Monsters run around in society, unchecked and undeterred by knowing that their guns- the instruments for destruction- are illegal. If places with strict gun control policies like Chicago, Washington D.C. and Newark serve as an illustration for the kind of peace America can expect from enhanced gun control measures, we should all question if gun control is any kind of solution at all.
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