It’s the psychopathic criminals who are committing the violence. And because they are criminals, they will by definition ignore gun ban laws.
Want proof? Well, for starters, it’s already against the law to shoot children and kill them. Yet Adam Lanza did exactly that in Newtown, Conn., oblivious to what the law says. All by itself, this is proof that laws do not stop criminal-minded psychopaths from committing acts of violence.
Strictest gun control areas have the most violent crime
Remember all this when you hear all the usual political suspects call for “gun control legislation.” This legislation will, by definition, only hurt law-abiding citizens who would never even think of harming innocent children. At the same time, gun control laws will do absolutely nothing to stop psychopathic criminals from using guns, knives or other weapons to commit mass violence.
Proof of this is readily apparent. “One of the interesting characteristics of mass shootings is that they generally occur in places where firearms are [already] banned: malls, schools, etc,” writes professor Glenn Harlan Reynolds in a USA Today opinion piece. “That was the finding of a famous 1999 study by John Lott of the University of Maryland and William Landes of the University of Chicago, and it appears to have been borne out by experience since then as well.”
Renolds goes on to expose the “big lie” of gun control: the idea that criminals will abide by “gun-free zones” or laws of any kind. The very premise of being a criminal is that they ignore laws.