Useless Gun Control Measures

Ever since the shooting in Uvalde, Texas last month, Democrats have once again introduced a laundry list of gun control measures that they claim might prevent the next massacre. Just a couple of days ago, a panel in the House of Representatives advanced the Protecting Our Kids Act, which contains a series of different gun control measures. Here is a 6/2/2022 article from CBS news explaining what exactly the bill would do:

The legislation advanced by the House panel is a package of eight bills that, among other plans, would raise the minimum purchasing age for semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21; bar large-capacity magazines; incentivize safe firearm storage and establish requirements regulating storage of guns on residential premises; and build on the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ regulatory ban on bump stocks, which allow semiautomatic rifles to fire more rapidly.

The idea of raising the age of buying a gun from eighteen to twenty-one is a popular one, especially considering that Congress seems to think that raising the age of something to twenty-one is a solution to all issues. However, the average age of a mass shooter in the United States is thirty-three years old. For that matter, a quarter of mass shooters already use guns they get illegally — because people plan to commit mass shootings have no interest in following the law.