Most Americans agree that stronger laws are needed to reduce the 30,000 deaths caused by guns each year—especially after the shooting deaths of 26 first-graders and teachers in Newtown.
The National Rifle Association and the rest of the gun lobby disagree. They argue that the solution (besides putting more guns in the hands of more people) is to “enforce the laws on the books” to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. If anyone thought that argument was anything more than a self-serving dodge, two pending U.S. Supreme Court cases make the gun lobby’s hypocrisy undeniable.
