(May 8, 2023 at 12:21 pm)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: @FlatAssembler
1. Real-world experience demonstrates that gun control laws reduce the incidence of gun violence. When the US banned assault-type weapons, mass shootings dropped like a paralyzed falcon. When the ban expired, mass shootings increased. But it’s not just mass shootings: wherever and whenever access to firearms is restricted, gun violence of ALL types decreases. This is an observed fact, no subject to rational debate. No study needed.
2. Violent crime isn’t the same as gun crime.
3. This rubbish about ‘gun free zones’ is a red herring. A gun-free zone has bugger all to do with restrictions on gun ownership.
4. Again, I’m not going to re-chew Kleck’s study. All the points that need to have been made about it have already been made.
5. I am sick to death hearing about your linguistic studies.
6. Of COURSE having a mental illness is a good predictor of being a mass shooter. How can you sensibly argue that mass shooters are mentally healthy?
Boru
Why is my Prime Minister trying to ban some hunting rifles? Because it's merely about a power grab from the government. You give them an inch, they will take a thousand miles. This is why OP is justified in criticizing what liberal countries are doing. One school shooting or mass shooting should never be justification to change entire laws. It's one freakin event. And in the US, rifles account for a tiny, tiny percentage of actual gun crime, yet these are the weapons you see politicians calling weapons of war and trying to ban the most. It's clearly a power grab, as these weapons are hardly being used at all to kill folks. It's the hand guns killing all the folks.
