Ryan McMaken on Privatized Approaches to Gun Violence
Channel: misesmedia
Date: 2018-02-23

The gun control debate is nothing more than a smokescreen: another divisive and emotional issue in a country obsessed with politicizing every human ill, all premised on the wildly irrational idea that we can get rid of 300 million firearms. But there is a market for safe schools and safe public spaces, a market security entrepreneurs could fill if government got out of the way. Mises.org editor Ryan McMaken joins Jeff to discuss private solutions to gun violence, the kind of solutions only available to private property owners with skin in the game. It's time to apply market incentives to school security.

Read more about this topic:
1. "Guns and Schools: Can the Market do Better?" https://mises.org/wire/guns-and-schools-can-market-do-better
2. "Shootings: Why Don't Schools Have Better Security?" https://mises.org/wire/shootings-why-dont-schools-have-better-security
3. "Security Works at Disney—But Can't Work at a Public School?" https://mises.org/wire/security-works-disney-%E2%80%94-cant-work-public-school