Brooks and Capehart on the tragedy in Uvalde and Georgia’s primary elections

David Brooks:

Sure, I imply, their argument is that, A, it is a proper assured within the Structure, B, they’ve an ethos of we handle ourselves, and that we’ll present our personal security.

C, they’ve an ethos that the federal government’s out to threaten. The gun rights are a strategy to forestall risk from the federal government. And, lastly, it is grow to be a tradition conflict subject, the place the gun has now grow to be a mythic emblem of rural life. And lots of people who help gun rights say it is only a bunch of coastal elites telling us tips on how to dwell our lives.

I believe there could also be some hope. I am slightly extra hopeful, for 2 causes. One, each time one among these occasions does occur, it does change minds. And when you take a look at the historical past, even from all through all these shootings, you see a spike in help for gun laws, which then drops over time, however would not drop all the way in which again.

And so, regularly, you see. After which I believe there may be the potential for altering the way in which we discuss this in an effort to get people who find themselves winnable. And that is to not phrase it as gun management, we’ll take away your weapons. That is the phrase that’s gun regulation. Like, we’ve got driving regulation. We’ve vehicles. And we regulate the vehicles.

And there are all types of issues you possibly can do which might be sort of like what we do with vehicles. Like, we may elevate the craze restrict at which you purchase a gun. It is 18. This child was 18. You might elevate it to 21. That might make a distinction. Background checks. The crimson flag legal guidelines. For those who see any individual in your orbit who’s suicidal or one thing, you possibly can go to a legislation enforcement and make it unattainable for them to get weapons.

There are a complete collection of issues. Anyone made the purpose — I believe, was my colleague Nick Kristof — that when you — if I lose my telephone, and also you choose it up, it is mainly ineffective to you, as a result of you do not have my code. Why cannot weapons be like that?

And so there’s a complete collection of issues that may be executed which might be simply regular, as a result of we do them for vehicles.