Assault Weapons Ban Debate Reignites After A Series Of Mass Shootings Across The Country

Congressional Democrats are reigniting their push for new gun control legislation in the wake of recent mass shootings. President Biden has stated he'll move on stricter gun laws before the year is over.

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[devonmarr]

Since 1985 all rifles combined account for 3-4% of all homicides. This is a waste of time

[TexZenMaster]

Interesting facts to discuss:

A. The VAST majority of firearms related homicides are with illegal handguns (88.3% from Obama's CDC study, 93% from the ATF, and 94% from the Crime Prevention Research Center) and not by legal handguns or rifles. These crimes are not affected by changes in legislation; old or new.
B. Defensive uses of guns by crime victims is a common occurrence, although the exact number remains disputed (Cook and Ludwig, 1996; Kleck, 2001a). Almost all national survey estimates indicate that defensive gun uses by victims are at least as common as offensive uses by criminals, with estimates of annual uses ranging from about 500, 000 to more than 3 million per year (Kleck, 2001a), in the context of about 300, 000 violent crimes involving firearms in 2008 (BJS, 2010). On the other hand, some scholars point to radically lower estimate of only 108, 000 annual defensive uses based on the National Crime Victimization Survey (Cook et al., 1997). (Copy-pasted from p26-27 of Obama's 2013 "Priorities for Research to Reduce the Threat of Firearm-Related Violence ")
C. >200, 000 rapes and sexual assaults are prevented each year by guns. If you look up the source they cite in the Northwestern law review (URL BLOCKED BY YOUTUBE) (citing tables 2-3 in particular), the numbers check out: If 2.6 million incidents involve the defensive use of a gun and 8.3% of those incidents involve rape or sexual assault (as table 3 lists), then the math checks out--that's just over 200, 000 incidents of rape or sexual assault prevented by gun use.

Just food for thought.

[worldview]

The gov doesn’t have your best interest

[bulgingbattery]

Once they get their laws passed, then that is exactly when the shootings will stop.

Don't you want it to stop?

[retroconservativeswirlerso]

Just worry about your next face lift, Joe! Looking uh mazin 😂