The emotional cry to ‘do something’ about gun control makes for horrible policy

Over the last month, tragedy has struck again in several separate instances of evil men murdering innocent people.

Before much was known about these mass shootings, pro-gun control politicians and special interest groups sounded the alarm and demanded the passage of gun control laws that they say would prevent future acts of violence. In Texas, for example, the state’s relatively lax gun laws were blamed for the murders, despite the inconvenient fact the Texas murderer’s gun was illegally possessed in the first place.