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The truth is that the best way to protect public safety is to ensure robust public-carry laws. Why? Well, it comes down to the old saying “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”

This was a bit of wisdom America’s Founders understood. One thinker who deeply influenced them was the eighteenth-century Italian criminologist Cesare Beccaria. In a passage that Thomas Jefferson copied into his personal “Legal Commonplace Book,” Beccaria said that laws which forbid the wearing of arms end up disarming only those “who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent.” Restrictive gun laws, Beccaria added, don’t prevent murder but rather encourage it, “as it requires less courage to attack unarmed than armed persons.” He likened banning guns to depriving people of fire “for fear of their being burnt” or of water “for fear of their being drowned.”

Paladin wrote: Mon Nov 01, 2021 8:49 am https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2021/10/31/mark-w-smith-clever-but-wrong-inside-the-anti-gun-arguments-at-the-supreme-court/

The truth is that the best way to protect public safety is to ensure robust public-carry laws. Why? Well, it comes down to the old saying “When guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns.”

This was a bit of wisdom America’s Founders understood. One thinker who deeply influenced them was the eighteenth-century Italian criminologist Cesare Beccaria. In a passage that Thomas Jefferson copied into his personal “Legal Commonplace Book,” Beccaria said that laws which forbid the wearing of arms end up disarming only those “who are not disposed to commit the crime which the laws mean to prevent.” Restrictive gun laws, Beccaria added, don’t prevent murder but rather encourage it, “as it requires less courage to attack unarmed than armed persons.” He likened banning guns to depriving people of fire “for fear of their being burnt” or of water “for fear of their being drowned.”