Want To Reduce Gun Violence? Here’s How.

One of the reasons why the gun industry began promoting the sale of handguns for self-defense was that the mid-1970’s, the sport of hunting began to die out largely because the American population had become overwhelmingly suburbanized, and hunting had always been more or less a rural sport.

Unfortunately, as more handguns, particularly semi-automatic pistols with high-capacity, military ammunition came onto the market, more of those guns ended up in the wrong hands and we now have an endemic problem of gun violence which results in more than 100,000 deaths and serious injuries every year.

The result of this focus on guns for self-defense (which often turns out to be self-offense) is a continual tug-of-war between pro-gun and anti-gun groups, with what seems to be a new gun-control law passed in one state every other week, and another gun-control law being reversed in another state every other week.

Earlier this week, a Federal court threw out Maryland’s gun-licensing statute, saying it violated 2nd-Amendment ‘rights,.’ The same day, an Oregon judge ruled that a new gun-control law violated the state constitution. Both decisions will be appealed, and the legal battle drags on.

I find it absolutely bizarre that someone who walks into my gun shop and buys a semi-automatic pistol with extra magazines…