{"id":13319,"date":"2019-09-19T13:44:42","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T17:44:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/?p=13319"},"modified":"2019-09-19T13:44:45","modified_gmt":"2019-09-19T17:44:45","slug":"what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-gun-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wasobamaborninkenya.com\/blog\/what-we-dont-talk-about-when-we-talk-about-gun-control\/","title":{"rendered":"What We Don\u2019t Talk About When We Talk About Gun Control"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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No government regulation can make society moral. <\/em><\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

<\/em>FrontPage Mag<\/strong>, by Daniel Greenfield — September 19, 2019<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A social ill takes place on three levels: the object level, the individual level, and the social level.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Take alcoholism. There\u2019s the object, alcohol. There\u2019s the choice that the individual makes to drink the alcohol. And, finally, there\u2019s the social problems that can be blamed for widespread alcoholism.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gun control movement operates in the same object-oriented space of the prohibitionist movement. For prohibitionists, the problem was gin. For the gun control movement, it\u2019s all about the guns. Get rid of the gin and the guns, and the underlying problem goes away without having to do anything else.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the old prohibitionism of sin substances, liquor, drugs, and pornography has been ridiculed and its legal infrastructure dismantled, the obsessive certainty that guns are inherently corrupting holds sway. The lefty media insists that the only solution to gun violence is prohibitionism and more prohibitionism.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yet the argument for blaming guns is much weaker than the one for blaming drugs or alcohol. Alcohol and drugs are addictive compounds that shape how we think. Guns, unlike alcohol and drugs, aren\u2019t addictive. Nor do they influence behavior. Their relationship to us remains an external one.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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