Gun Control Reform Does not Control Crime And Violence; It Only Makes People More Creative!

WASHINGTON –  President Joe Biden unveiled his first major steps to address gun violence on Thursday, directing his administration to tighten restrictions on so-called ghost guns, or untraceable weapons that can be constructed from parts purchased online (Read the Executive Action Here)

However, no more #gun reform that limit the access to guns can stop or reduce gun violence. All this will do is to create an underground gun—market that will drive up the price of guns and criminalize more (black) boys whose gun love is facilitated by #GrandTheftAuto. Visit Jamaica & see what there restrictive gun control policy achieved; nothing but an underground market where guns are exchanged for drugs, and or make shift guns become the new method of obtaining or using a gun. 

If you want to reduce gun—violence, limiting gun access either reduces gun-related killings done by a legal weapon and increases the use of illegal weapons in killings so that the authorities will now experience more difficulties to track down perpetrators of gun violence, since any new gun control policy creates an informal and underground industry (Black Market).

What needs to happen is for us to think about controlling crime and violence, not a particular tool of violence and crime. What is that makes people hurt other people? It’s not the gun, it’s just the means to the end. So let’s think about the end not the means so that we are not creating problems by applying policies that “projects” blame on (guns) a tool of man to carry out their heinous thoughts. 

Further, any executive and legislative action that relies on a Gun—Impact Study is a waste and does not provide a basis for gun reform. Impacts and effects doe not tell us how to minimize the rationale that creates a situation where legal guns are used which we know are already impactful. If guns are not used, then something else such as Suicide bombers, machetes and other weapons provide the same impact. On 9/11, they used knives to hi-jacked the planes and then used the planes to collide in the Twin  Towers which was just as impactful. So let’s not be reactive and project our problems of crime on guns only to limit it so that more creative means are available to criminals to access guns to kill which then limit the ability of authorities to investigate crimes or killings using “trace and search”.