Gun Control: The Paralyzing Price of American Freedom
America’s biggest problem is that it fatally overvalues its freedom.
— Xenocrates
Guns. Guns! Everywhere. The news feed coming out of the freest country in the world is starting to read like a play by play for the war in Afghanistan. Why is there so much gun violence in America? At this point, there is no point arguing against the right for law abiding citizens to own guns. Doing so would be pointless. Rather, this post seeks to highlight that America’s biggest problem is not its guns. Guns are only a symptom of the actual problem.
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