Common Sense As A Paradox

Charles Martin, a writer of an article (9/01/2019)   called "To Reduce Gun Violence, Arm All Americans", was listed on Facebook today.

I did not need to read the article because this common sense paradox is a solution to gun violence that I have been proposing for some time. The paradox is: when all members of the community are armed, gun violence is reduced. In Mexico and Chicago, where the populace is disarmed, gun violence is rampant.

To resolve the paradox, we need several qualifiers to be added. It is the law-abiding, peaceful, disarmed majority that should be armed. If all of them are carrying, then mass shooters, crazies, terrorists and criminals will be killed, wounded or disarmed quickly, and this will drive down the crime rate, because criminals will hesitate to hurt, when the good guy with the gun will put down, effectively and immediately, the bad guy with the gun.

Thus arming all law-abiding Americans will reduce gun violence.

The corollary to this is to jail and keep jailed, violent criminals, repeat offenders always armed and carrying illegally purchased guns.