Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has proposed a law that would make it next to impossible to obtain a handgun in Canada. Meanwhile, in the U.S., the possibility of a new package of gun-restriction laws is better than nothing.
Those of us who have to write, too often, about American gun madness—or about American gun craziness, to adapt the name of a great B movie on the subject—had at least a little contemplation with which to accompany our grief after the massacres in. It was a grief that—because it was partly propelled by the knowledge that children who had texted “I love you” to each other every night had been murdered together in their classrooms and then buried side by side—can’t really be articulated.
that might make it out of the Senate managed to be both deeply discouraging and immensely encouraging. It is easy to be discouraged by all that these proposals about gun regulation do not contain—which is, effectively, any actual gun regulation. There is no new minimum age for buying an assault weapon, much less any of the kind of life-saving restrictions that are coming into place in Canada.
To call these proposals modest is to call stark naked fully clothed; to see them even as a small gesture is to look with wishful eyes through the most high-powered of microscopes. And yet it is. It may mark a watershed of a kind, a recognition on the part of at least ten Republican senators that having children decapitated by military-style weapons in the hands of teen-agers is not to be countenanced in the world’s leading democracy.
It is not at all unknown for an inadequate piece of legislation to be the harbinger of real change. The Civil Rights Act of 1957 did little, and what it did do, under the pressure of the still-segregationist South, was unenforceable. And yet it announced that, after eighty years, the Jim Crow regime that had been in place since the terrible deal of 1876 was ending.
What’s more—and, perhaps, even more important—the most valuable lesson to be learned from the sociology of crime is that even small alterations can have disproportionate effects: it does not take an eight-foot wall to keep intruders out of your garden; a four-foot wall that makes it more of an effort to get in does remarkably well. The paradox of gun massacres is that it is not false to see that the absolute numbers are relatively small.
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