Is There a Gun Control Solution?

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i've always argued in favor of more gun control, but i don't fully understand the situation. Even if you stopped it right now, there's still threehundred, 50 million guns just floating around. Short of a stasi state of going to every house and taking guns, is just not going to go away. Guns are a proxy for something else. It's one of the craziest conspiracy theories i've ever heard. There's often with these hysteria things that have a grain of truth which then becomes the backbone of this hysterical thing.

Political Correctness has formed the basis for a new intolerant mindset, actively policing speech that is deemed offensive or controversial. Rather than confront bad ideas through discussion, it has now become common to intimidate one’s detractors into silence. Taking on board legitimate concerns about how speech can be harmful, Andrew Doyle argues that the alternative — an authoritarian world in which our freedoms are surrendered to those in power — has far worse consequences.