Following up on my blog post of December 17 on the shootings in Connecticut, “Those Government Gun-Free Zones,” I wish to make a supplemental point, one about interventionism.
It appears increasingly likely that the Connecticut massacre will lead to some sort of gun-control measure being enacted by Congress.
Will whatever measure they enact mean that there will be no more massacres? Of course not. There have to be underlying reasons as to why these types of horrors occur here in the United States and not, say, in Switzerland, where most everyone owns assault rifles and semi-automatic pistols and keeps them in his home. (See my article “The Banality of Evil,” for one possible explanation.) And since murderers here in the United States will always be able to find guns, including in a black market, whatever measure they enact is not going to bring an end to mass shootings. It would be far wiser to address and confront the root causes of such horrors rather than impose gun control on the citizenry.
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