How To Reduce Violence In America

By Jacob G. Hornberger

Hardly a day goes by without someone calling for gun control as the way to reduce violence in America.

But the gun control advocates have it all wrong. That’s because they are attacking the symptom of the problem rather than the cause of the problem. That’s not going to do any good and, in fact, might well make the situation even worse.

Consider Switzerland, a country in which there is widespread gun ownership. If that was the root cause of violence in society, Switz...