Cancel Student Debt? Kill The Constitution to Solve Gun Violence? | Independent Outlook 39

June 1st, 2022

Independent Outlook is the regular round-table conversation from the Independent Institute that provides timely insights and cutting-edge commentary on the most pressing issues of the day. It features Independent’s Dr. Graham H. Walker (President of the Independent Institute), Dr. Williamson M. Evers (Senior Fellow) and Dr. Phillip W. Magness (Senior Fellow).

What’s behind the outbreak of mass shootings and what can stop it? Would banning more types of guns, or more features of guns, or giving officials more power to seize guns, solve the problem? Or is a more radical solution necessary, as argued by those who say the U.S. Constitution is the obstacle to safety? Is there wisdom in President Biden’s plan to cancel college student debt, or would that degrade student borrowers while further boosting inflation? –which now looms as Americans’ greatest anxiety.