The author is confused; he makes contradictory statements. His arguments are familiar: make a list of talking points that includes a few things most people will agree with and many people will then assume the other points are also true. It is a refined rhetorical technique.
The reality is that gun laws started becoming more strict in the 1990s starting with the
Gun-Free School Zones Act of 1990 and gun deaths in the U.S. have increased since that time. I don't think a productive discussion about gun control can be had until the negative correlation between gun ownership and violence is acknowledged.
Moreover, I dont' think it is possible to talk about the recent wave of gun deaths in children (or in people generally) without examining recent cultural phenomena.
As you can see there was a spike in gun-related homicides in 2020 - a year of significant unrest in the U.S., including a global pandemic, BLM riots, and political division.
Was there a change in gun laws in 2019 that caused a spike in gun deaths?
What are the new gun laws in 2019?
There was a minor wave of gun control activism in 2018 that led to some increased restrictions in 2019.
Gun control activists don't address the real causes of violence in society. They are driven mostly by fear to "do something". Because they don't actually have any clue what to do, they have latched unto a superficial solution. In this case, their solution inevitably leads to more violence, because they fail to understand that nature abhors a vaccuum. Disarm people and something inevitably comes to fill the void. If you take away the capability to defend the schools, then schools become the target.
Cartels are filling the power vacuum at the U.S. border with Mexico and now fentanyl in the leading cause of death for adults between the ages of 18 and 45 in the U.S.
