President Biden promises to fight crime, but his gun control proposals prove only to be enlightening examples of how public policy has become performative and imprudent. Policy becomes imprudent when it offers very little marginal gain but extracts a very high cost in liberty and undermines what Hayek praised as legal predictability. Policy debates become “performative” when politicians, pundits, and celebrities not only play to type but are driven more by fantasy than reality.
NU Political Science and Philosophy Professor Glenn Moots: New Gun Control Efforts
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