Fistfights aren't gunfights. Knives don't go off accidentally. Yes, guns kill

There’s an old cliché in America’s gun debate that is so anathema to common sense — Guns don’t kill, people kill — that politically serious defenders of gun culture seldom even invoke it anymore. Like “thoughts and prayers,” it has become a dark and self-defeating punchline. Yet former President Donald Trump and his former vice president, Mike Pence, both went there last week, while speaking separately to the National Rifle Association’s annual gathering in Indiana. “We don’t need gun control, we need crime control,” Pence declared, offering a clever rhetorical construct that neatly ignores th...