I have written before about guns and gun control (see here, here, and here). I don’t need to repeat what I said in those posts. I just wanted to comment on Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker’s vow, after the shootings in Aurora, Illinois, to tighten Illinois’s gun laws. The only problem with the Governor’s promise is that Illinois’s laws already prohibited the alleged shooter from buying or owning a gun. The problem in the Aurora shootings wasn’t that we didn’t have the right laws; it was that we weren’t enforcing the laws we had.
In my post on Friday about Governor Pritzker’s proposed budget, I said that it’s not how much government spends, it’s how much government accomplishes. In this case, it’s much the same. It’s not what laws government passes that counts. It’s how many laws of those laws government actually enforces.
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