But recently I've come to see him as typifying a dangerous kind of GOP hypocrisy. The conservatives to whom I turned to explain this contradiction have refused to consider any more gun control measures whatsoever. Several prominent conservatives noted that we already have 20,000 gun laws on the books. If these laws haven't prevented school shootings, this line of reasoning goes, new measures are simply doomed to failure. But the fact that drug use is so prevalent does nothing to slow the drug war.
Laws do more harm than good.
The conservative line is that gun laws are counterproductive. And if laws don't work, this line of reasoning goes, let's abandon the fight. Ah, yes, from folks determined to abandon the war on drugs. The family is at fault. The nation suffers innumerable consequences from easy access to guns and drugs.