Commentary
The Highland Park massacre near Chicago is the latest horrific chapter in a long and evil story. Some want you to believe it’s a story about why we need gun control. The truth is that it’s a story about letting the insane out of the asylums—and it suggests that gun control laws, including much-hyped “Red Flag” provisions, simply don’t and will never work.  
Want evidence? In the last 50 years, the percentage of households in the United States owning at least one firearm has gone down. You heard right: Gun ownership dropped from 43 percent in 1972 to 42 percent in 2021. At the same time, the average number of deaths from mass shootings increased 600 percent, from 8 per year in the 1970s to 51 between 2010 to 2019….