Is gun control the best idea our leaders have?

More gun control legislation to fight gun crimes and murders in Atlanta? That’s the best idea city leadership can come up with? How about removing the criminals from gun crimes and murders?

How about removing the guns from criminals? Criminals are not going to fill out paperwork to purchase guns. They just steal them or purchase them from someone else who has stolen them.

But the idea of pursuing the criminal is not politically ideal, and it is not in keeping with the narrative of removing all guns. The easiest way to show how progressive the politicians are is to go after the guns that law-abiding citizens have. That’s because they leave a paper trail. Easy to follow,

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