View all Articles
Commentary By Rafael A. Mangual

You Can Have Gun Control or You Can Defang the Police. You Can’t Do Both

In the wake of two recent mass shootings, at a private school in Nashville, Tennessee and inside a bank in Louisville, Kentucky, familiar arguments have been playing out in cable news studios and throughout the Twittersphere. "The solution is obvious!" We're told authoritatively by gun control advocates. "We want more gun control, and we want it now!"

Continue reading the entire piece here at Newsweek

______________________

Rafael Mangual is the Nick Ohnell Fellow and head of research for the Policing and Public Safety Initiative at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor of City Journal. He is also the author of Criminal (In)Justice: What the Push for Decarceration and Depolicing Gets Wrong and Who It Hurts Most

Photo by Savusia Konstantin/iStock