“As Clayton points out, there’s no magic way to make guns disappear. And on the flip side…there’s no magic way that guns make society a utopia of politeness either.”
Very true. And that’s the reason that I pointed out that a big part of the mass murder problem (and part of the general murder problem) in the U.S. is related to the well-intentioned effort to deinstitutionalize the mentally ill, which led to a dramatic increase in not just murder, but homelessness, people freezing death sleeping on park benches, and a general degradation of the quality of urban life–not to mention dramatic increases in mentally ill homeless people dying of violence and exposure.
Focusing on the guns distracts attenton from what a horrible mistake deinstitutionalization was–and that’s probably why so much leftist media focuses on guns. “Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.”
