Is More Gun Control The Answer

As we endure yet more mass shootings, liberal politicians and pundits are screaming for more gun control. But is this really the answer? I say no.

There is a reason I say no which should really make you scratch your head. After the shootings in Colorado and Atlanta these last two weeks the all familiar term “assault rifle” starts to be used. Well a regular citizen cannot own an assault rifle without permission from the ATF. The most popular weapon used in these shootings is the AR-15, which is not an assault rifle. In order to be classified as such it has to have as firing selections, safe, semi-automatic and automatic. It only has safe and fire, which means you can only fire one round at a time. The AR in front of the number doesn’t stand for Automatic Rifle either. That is also a huge misconception, it stands for armoilite rifle, which was the first company to build these rifles. The were built to resemble the rifles American soldiers carried in Vietnam.

Why have there been so many school shootings over the years? It is a simple explanation. In 1994, Joe Biden introduced legislation making all schools gun free zones, thus making them easy prey. People know that schools are now a soft target. I remember as a child going to school, our principal had a shotgun in a rack in the back of his pick-up truck. We had no school shootings back then.