Because someone with the motivation and capacity to murder multiple innocent people will lose all motivation and capacity to do so the moment he or she is prevented from legally obtaining a firearm. That’s why all the thousands of annual gangland slayings are committed exclusively with legally purchased guns.
This is why anyone with a brain thinks the social sciences are mostly bullshit.
It’s so hilariously disingenuous to keep pretending that this is about reducing casualties and not making sure you can’t defend yourself against tyranny.
it's pure phony. the bulk of these "legally obtained" firearm cases are like parkland or sandy hook where the shooter was already known to police and the entire incident would have been prevented if law enforcement had just enforced the law.
shit, the cops had been to the home of the parkland shooter 53 times in the prior year. the kid had been expelled and referred to the FBI for mass murder threats. but if the kid was arrested, the school district would lose it's "preferred status" under the Youth Protect Act for receiving federal grants for as a reward for keeping student crime down.
in the bulk of these cases, they didn't actually reduce crime, they just stopped enforcing the laws and lied about it.
Trying to hide the true reason as always: THEY want total control and the peasants to be wasted off as easily as they can ripping them away of self defense.
That's not how it works. You don't decide against committing mass murder because you can't get an 'assault weapon', whatever the hell that is.
You know what's basically just as good as a civillian AR-15 in just about any circumstance a mass shooter could want? A Ruger Mini 14.
What did our latest mass shooter use? A Kel-Tec Sub2000, a pistol-calibre carbine.
I'm a fucking Englishman and even I know this shit. You won't prevent mass shootings by banning guns unless you make ALL firearm access difficult and pretty much destroy America's gun culture entirely.
But it's NOT the guns that are causing this problem. The problem is caused by the degeneration of society. Americans had more access to guns between 1920 and 1970 than they do today and mass shootings were rarer then than they are now.
One thing that the gun control types refuse to take into account when it comes to America is the concept of geography. America borders the fucking cartels, EU countries don't have to worry about that. The second any real gun legislation is passed the cartels are going to switch to gun smuggling and they'll make a lot of money doing it and it won't be 'evil' gun owners doing this it will be criminals within the country buying up tons of guns in an arms race with the police because they know they'll be able to do whatever they want.
Ah, like lockdown and masks. They model a hypothetical effect which already failed IRL, run with their false assumption, ignore all negative long term consequences, and lobby to have normal people stripped of their basic rights.
This doesn't cover how many people may have died if an attempt to ban so-called "assault weapons" were to go through, primarily law enforcement officers foolish enough to attempt enforcement of the ban. There is also the strong possibility that criminal elements would become emboldened by persecution of individuals who are otherwise law abiding citizens.
Because someone with the motivation and capacity to murder multiple innocent people will lose all motivation and capacity to do so the moment he or she is prevented from legally obtaining a firearm. That’s why all the thousands of annual gangland slayings are committed exclusively with legally purchased guns.
This is why anyone with a brain thinks the social sciences are mostly bullshit.
Yea I hate that logic.
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It’s so hilariously disingenuous to keep pretending that this is about reducing casualties and not making sure you can’t defend yourself against tyranny.
it's pure phony. the bulk of these "legally obtained" firearm cases are like parkland or sandy hook where the shooter was already known to police and the entire incident would have been prevented if law enforcement had just enforced the law.
shit, the cops had been to the home of the parkland shooter 53 times in the prior year. the kid had been expelled and referred to the FBI for mass murder threats. but if the kid was arrested, the school district would lose it's "preferred status" under the Youth Protect Act for receiving federal grants for as a reward for keeping student crime down.
in the bulk of these cases, they didn't actually reduce crime, they just stopped enforcing the laws and lied about it.
How many deaths would be prevented if we just admitted that trans people are mentally ill and shouldn't be allowed to make their own decisions?
Now subtract from that the number of lives saved by "assault weapons" over 15 years.
That's not fair! You can save someone's life multiple times, but you can only kill someone once! /s
Trying to hide the true reason as always: THEY want total control and the peasants to be wasted off as easily as they can ripping them away of self defense.
So these people wouldn’t have found a different gun to use? Ignoring the stupid title of “assault weapon”.
You're never more than a big stick (or a USB stick, if your neighbor has a Kia) away from having an "assault weapon", so long as the cops have them.
Studies are bullshit, data doesn't lie.
An assault weapons ban doesn't stop the feds from handing them out.
That's not how it works. You don't decide against committing mass murder because you can't get an 'assault weapon', whatever the hell that is.
You know what's basically just as good as a civillian AR-15 in just about any circumstance a mass shooter could want? A Ruger Mini 14.
What did our latest mass shooter use? A Kel-Tec Sub2000, a pistol-calibre carbine.
I'm a fucking Englishman and even I know this shit. You won't prevent mass shootings by banning guns unless you make ALL firearm access difficult and pretty much destroy America's gun culture entirely.
But it's NOT the guns that are causing this problem. The problem is caused by the degeneration of society. Americans had more access to guns between 1920 and 1970 than they do today and mass shootings were rarer then than they are now.
It's not guns, it's degeneration.
Here is a whole list of things to ban before "assault'" weapons: https://archive.is/iGW8I
Why do we need beds when Africans sleep peacefully on the floor?
So... one month of Chicago weekends?
Is this accounting the daily gang shooting among Seasoning-Americans in cities or is this the typical disingenuous "study"?
One thing that the gun control types refuse to take into account when it comes to America is the concept of geography. America borders the fucking cartels, EU countries don't have to worry about that. The second any real gun legislation is passed the cartels are going to switch to gun smuggling and they'll make a lot of money doing it and it won't be 'evil' gun owners doing this it will be criminals within the country buying up tons of guns in an arms race with the police because they know they'll be able to do whatever they want.
Live near a city of 600k-700k people in the Netherlands and we still have an almost bi-weekly shooting. It is just not reported in the news
It's amazing how many gun control people still fall for this narrative, but the media has a fairly tight control on the normie mindset.
Ah, like lockdown and masks. They model a hypothetical effect which already failed IRL, run with their false assumption, ignore all negative long term consequences, and lobby to have normal people stripped of their basic rights.
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you are the reason we are armed. you, specifically, journalist.
40 000 people die in car crashes in USA, yearly. They really need to step up and ban fucking cars.
This doesn't cover how many people may have died if an attempt to ban so-called "assault weapons" were to go through, primarily law enforcement officers foolish enough to attempt enforcement of the ban. There is also the strong possibility that criminal elements would become emboldened by persecution of individuals who are otherwise law abiding citizens.