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Gun control debate ignores the real problems. Gun control advocates continue to claim

that only restrictions on gun ownership will keep people safe from mass shooters and other criminals.

However, good people with guns can stop bad people with guns and bad people will still have guns

despite gun control laws. Further weakening the argument that restricting private firearms

ownership will reduce violent crimes is the fact that states with constitutional carry

where individuals are free to exercise their second amendment rights without seeking permission

from the government have lower homicide rates than states with more restrictive gun laws.

One policy that is popular among gun control supporters and some who normally support the

second amendment but want to do something about gun violence is red flag laws. These laws allow

law enforcement to confiscate an individual's guns based on a report that the individual poses

a threat to public safety. Red flag laws allows governments to restrict the exercise

although constitutionally protected right without due process. Another weakness in the

argument that more restrictive gun laws will reduce violence is that many of the cities and states

with the highest incidence of violent crime have restrictive gun laws. Gun control supporters try to

explain this by blaming individuals who bring guns from states with more permissive gun laws

interstates with more restrictive gun laws. The guns can though at the same time be coming from states

with less violent crime interstates with more violent crime. But if guns were the problem then violent

crime would be higher it states with permissive gun laws than in states with more legal restrictions

related to firearms. The gun control debate ignores the root causes of rising violence which is a

symptom of the decline of traditional morality that respected every individual's in-admoral rights

to life, liberty and property. This traditional morality has been replaced with a nihilistic

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