The massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., has set headlines ablaze this week with both the Left and Right instantly politicizing mass shootings––the Left repeating their tired mantra, calling for stricter gun control, and the Right making vague allusions to mental illness while going into defense mode on the Second Amendment. Interestingly, the debate on gun control has been mostly unchanged for almost a century, never proving to be effective.

Still, we hear calls for something to be done about the 8 million-plus AR-15s in the country after every mass casualty shooting. Is this because people believe it to be an effective solution, or because they are obsessed with guns?