How Can Gun Violence Be Reduced? | Enforcing Current Gun Laws Will Reduce Gun Violence
Benjamin Kepple is a journalist who serves as a senior writer for Heterodoxy and as an education reporter for Investor’s Business Daily.
Summary: Unless they are strictly enforced, federal gun laws have little impact on crime. The National Rifle Association (NRA) has shown that the best way to reduce gun violence is to prosecute felons who attempt to purchase guns. For example, federal gun laws are strictly enforced in Richmond, Virginia, with the help of the NRA’s Project EXILE program; as a result, murder rates have fallen sharply in that...
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