5 Feet of Fury

Jim Goad on the Aurora shooting

Jim Goad writes:

Look away from the fact that Mexico has stricter gun laws than the US and a higher gun-homicide rate.

Ignore the fact that Switzerland has some of the world’s highest gun-ownership rates and a negligible gun-homicide rate.

And don’t even try to compare gun-related murder rates in urban areas that have restrictive gun laws alongside low gun-homicide rates in rural areas where firearms ownership tends to be highest.  (…)