By Brett Joshpe

I greatly appreciate the opportunity to debate and respond to Selwyn Duke's piece,
which makes many very reasonable points. Its biggest deficiency is that
it never actually proposes measures –whether specific new regulations
or repeal of specific existing ones — that would improve the current
system. Instead, Mr. Duke says he would scale back gun laws from 22,000
to 5,000, two arbitrary numbers, neither of which bear any correlation
to smart policy.

Before
discussing potential policy responses, let me say that Mr. Duke is
quite right that thousands of gun laws, unsurprisingly, did not
eliminate crime (I am unaware of anybody who ever suggested that they
would, or of any law that ever has). I find wholly unpersuasive the
suggestion that laws — particularly new laws — are unnecessary because
"bad guys" will not follow them or because they will fail to eliminate a
problem completely.

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