“To be clear, this bill saves lives. When it was in place from 1994-2004, gun massacres declined by 37 percent compared with the decade before. After the ban expired, the number of massacres rose by 183 percent.
True or fake news? Either way, correlation is not causation.
Also what is a gun massacre? Chicago on a summer weekend? lol... Most gun deaths are hand guns. How many of her 183% were actually using the guns she wants to ban?
Everything I've ever heard was the opposite, the AWB had no effect on gun crime. Even the wikipedia article on it says so.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban#Effects
Interesting, and wiki certainly isn't a friend to conservatives.
I wonder what cherry picked study she is getting her 'facts' from.
Seems like the book Rampage Nation, written by a liberal professor and contributor to Huffpost, CNN, etc.
“I assessed only high-fatality mass shootings when I examined the impact of the federal assault weapons ban. I did not have comprehensive data on mass shootings that resulted in less than 6 killed, which is why my assessment is limited to high-fatality mass shootings,”
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