Gun Control Analogy

After the recent mass killings, Warrior Poet  shared this video. Of particular interest in the video, he recounts this story:

In the 14th century, nearly one-third of Europe was wiped out by the Black Death - bubonic plague. As people were dying all around, some of the survivors mistakenly thought that the disease was being carried by cats. So they killed all the cats.

This worsened the problem, because as we know, the plague was spread by rats. Without the cats to kill the rats, the plague was spread even more. What we don't know is how many fewer people would have died, had the cats not been killed.

Gun control is like this - take the guns away from the good people, instead of the bad people. This will not help anybody in an active killer situation. Logic dictates that if there are fewer good people to kill the bad people, then the bad people will be able to kill more.

Furthermore, red flag laws and stricter background checks will not reduce the number of mass killings. They will only serve the purposes of bad people. It will only make it harder for good people to get guns. And, both will be abused, particularly against political enemies.