Uvalde's Biggest Mistake Was Trusting the Police to "Keep Us Safe"

Tags Big GovernmentThe FedLawThe Police State

06/09/2022Ryan McMaken

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Knee-jerk support for the police helps gun control advocates by undermining the most fundamental reason for gun ownership: the government's armed enforcers won't keep us safe and are likely to abuse their power.

Original Article: "Uvalde's Biggest Mistake Was Trusting the Police to "Keep Us Safe"

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Ryan McMaken (@ryanmcmaken) is a senior editor at the Mises Institute. Send him your article submissions for the Mises Wire and Power and Market, but read article guidelines first. Ryan has a bachelor's degree in economics and a master's degree in public policy and international relations from the University of Colorado. He was a housing economist for the State of Colorado. He is the author of Breaking Away: The Case of Secession, Radical Decentralization, and Smaller Polities and Commie Cowboys: The Bourgeoisie and the Nation-State in the Western Genre.