In my first post on gun control I reviewed the arguments about where we should draw the line on guns. Ie who can own what. In my second post I looked at the arguments for allowing gun ownership.
Today I’m going to review the arguments for banning all guns. Guns are dangerous. They are no longer needed in a civilized society. Other countries have taken all the guns away and they are doing fine. We have to do something to protect the children. People and guns are a dangerous mix.
The arguments boil down to: We (the authorities) know what is best for you and guns are dangerous so we want to take them away. John Stewart Mill wrote about this in 1859 in his his famous work On Liberty. “Some whenever they see any good to be done, or evil to be remedied, would willingly instigate the government to undertake the business, while others prefer to bare almost any amount of social evil rather than add one to the departments of human interests amenable to governmental control.”
In the next and final post on Gun Control I’ll make my proposal to keep guns away from some of the people causing havoc in the schools and on the streets, while still honoring the founders intent to keep guns available and unregistered in our society.