America's Youth | Guns Are Not the Cause of Youth Violence

“Kids and guns. Once more, a child has found easy access to a handgun, and the results are predictably tragic. A community is in mourning, and everyone is asking ‘Why?’”

So goes the media mantra we have all heard far too many times in recent years. We are then buffeted with week after week of so-called “in-depth reporting.” The cameras stare mercilessly at the faces of agonizing adults and sobbing, bewildered teens, as though we must all be taught exactly what grief looks like.

Then, when every maudlin moment has been drawn out to its maximum, heart-wrenching...

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