A policy study by the Henry George School of Social Science explains how one of the leading ideas of the pioneering Gilded Age American economist can help the nation break its costly and paralyzing deadlock over guns policy.
In Beyond Gunsmoke and Mirrors, authors Edward J. Nell and Ibrahima Drame show that one of George’s core principles – that users of commonly held resources should help fund the benefits created by such resources – can undergird a “user pays” gun control approach capable of significantly cutting many kinds of gun violence without the kind of “command and control” regulations that alarm so many gun-owners.