This is the Tom Harbin Program.

And welcome back, Tom Harbin, here with you a fascinating piece over at Daily Coase by

Mark Sumner on the Daily Coase staff.

The title is The Second Amendment as a failed experiment, and it's time for reasonable people

to admit that fact.

This weekend, over 400 shootings, 150 fatalities, people are wondering, you know, why is there

the sudden increase in gun violence?

Well, it's because there's been a sudden increase in guns.

Tens of millions of guns were sold during the COVID time.

It was like one of the top five years in the history of the United States for gun sales,

2020.

And see, you get more guns, you're going to have more shootings.

I mean, it's just like, you know, you have more cars, you're going to have more car accidents.

You know, talk to anybody who lives in a big city who has to deal with rush hour, you know,

the more cars, the more car accidents, the more guns, the more shootings, intentional,

unintentional, a whole bit.

And last month, Missouri joined the ranks of states that have passed preemptive legislation

that says that the federal government decides that AR-15, you know, weapons of war essentially

or other semi-automatic weapons are not approved weapon reigning longer.

And the helicopter decision allows for this, by the way.

The Supreme Court's helicopter decision that found that the Second Amendment encompasses

the right to self-defense, it is very clear that the government made it determine which

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