With the news of the most recent mass school shooting (if you missed it, don’t worry there will be another one soon) There have been many posts about Hitchens’ views on gun control. It seems he thought the gun control faction had it all wrong. Consider these points from a 1994 article for The Nation. What’s wrong with that?  A lot Hitch.  With so many gun deaths relative to other countries, the status quo is clearly not working.

What does everyone think?

A great perspective is offered by Adam Gopnik in the New Yorker.  Please read  The Simple Truth About Gun Control.