Opinion: Resist the rush to gun control. Mass shootings are complicated, so are solutions
The National Institute of Justice issued a report in February of this year evaluating 172 public mass shootings in the U.S. from 1966 to 2019, uncovering “more than 150 psychosocial history variables, such as those individuals’ mental health history, past trauma, interest in past shootings, and situational triggers.”
The latter point perhaps indicates an opportunity for carefully crafted “red-flag laws,” which allow law enforcement, with a court order, to seize the guns of people deemed to be a threat to themselves or others.
“The very concept of ‘red flags’ assumes that experts can reliably distinguish between harmless oddballs and future murderers. But there is little basis for that assumption,” writes Reason Magazine’s Jacob Sullum, who argues that red-flag laws are far from a panacea and risk the civil liberties of people who merely said strange things.
Should certain types of guns be banned? On what basis? Should we ban the most commonly used types of guns in mass shootings, handguns? Are we talking about only future sales? What about the hundreds of millions of guns in circulation?
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