Konstadinos Moros helpfully reminds us about the source of gun violence. The real culprit, which, of course, was so obvious I am embarrassed to admit I never saw it, but, any way, the real culprit is, drum roll please, single mothers. He found that there is an eerily high correlation between states with above average percentage of single mothers and above average percentage of gun violence.

Yes, it is those irresponsible gadabouts, single mothers, who mindlessly produce children who then shoot up the streets they live on. Now, I think everyone agrees it would be nice to have active fathers involved with their children, on the other hand, claiming that single mothers and their bastard children running amok in the streets are the single most important cause of gun violence is a bit much. Moros even admits that “correlation is not causation” before launching into his case against single mothers.

Moros fails to mention that there is also high overlaps with states that have high poverty rates, high gun ownership, and limited access to abortion and medical care. That these factors might also impinge on the problem is never explored because Moros has already found the villain — single mothers.

And it get’s worse. Moros believes that the one of the root problems of single motherhood is generous welfare payments. The unspoken message here is that society need do nothing to help out the single mother. Helping single mothers only encourages other women to have babies because those babies provide a generous income, so generous, in fact, that the largest age group living in poverty are children under the age of 5. I guess raising children in poverty is an exciting proposition for some women. Who would have known?

So, let me review the problem here. The offspring of unmarried women are shooting innocent people in the streets. They need a present father who will miraculously stop gun violence. This problem is so serious for Moros that we can’t possibly help these women in any way – no family planning and no government assistance — because some of these women will be encouraged to earn an income by having as many babies as possible. In other words, it is a serious problem that will be solved completely by not sending fathers who have committed drug offenses to prison. Which is all very reassuring. A simple solution to a complex problem and no extra tax money is needed in order to bring it about. A nice big bow on that particular package.

The only problem is that Moros is demonstrably wrong. I looked at the states that are the best place for single parents to raise their children and what I discovered is the states that rank best have very little overlap with states who have high levels of gun violence and single mothers. So, if single mothers are indeed the problem, the best way to solve the problem of bastard children running amok in the streets of America would be to help the single mothers dealing with this situation instead of ignoring them.

But, of course, this would mean an outlay of tax money in order to solve a complicated social problem. No Conservative wants to do that, they want cheap simple solutions. Well, you get what you pay for.