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18 years prior to 1996 Australia had 13 mass shootings. They enacted tough gun bans and did a buy back of assault weapons. since then there have been............ wait for it, NONE no mass shootings. Soooo Gun bans do work.
Incorrect, there have been Mass shooting, and then there is the bludgeoning killer.....
2 deaths is not what people think of when they think of mass shootings
Exactly right....which explains why liberals have turned a blind eye to the scourge of black-on-black killings that take place by the thousands every year in places like Chicago and beyond. Those onesies and twosies just don't matter. But a mass killing in Connecticut? Why, it's time to demolish the 2nd Amendment!!
The last thirty-five years of the most complete and accurate scientific criminological research shows that often, gun control increases violent crime, and it never reduces crime. Gun control laws cost thousands of lives each year, and endanger everyone, including those who choose not to own firearms.
There are about 2.5 million defensive uses of firearms in the U.S. each year, almost always without shooting the attacker. Mere possession and display is almost always an adequate defense.
Gun control shifts the balance of power to favor criminals (and bad governments) over ordinary citizens. This is especially evident in mass murder shooting rampages, which are facilitated by the imbalance of power created by gun control laws and business policies that prevent self-defense with firearms. Shooting rampages may last from several minutes to more than a half hour, due to the imbalance of power an armed attacker has over unarmed citizens.
Gun control destroys the multiple crime control and deterrent effects of armed citizens. The crime control and deterrent effects of armed citizens equal or exceed those of the entire criminal justice system, including police, courts, and prisons, according to research by Professor Gary Kleck at Florida State University.
Gun control laws waste, squander, and misdirect limited criminal justice resources, including police, court, and prison resources, by targeting the wrong people. Gun control diverts attention away from real and effective crime control methods that have worked in the past and will work in the future.
Firearms are used at least five times more often for self-defense by ordinary citizens than they are misused in all crimes, suicides, and accidents combined. (You won't learn that in the CFR controlled... filtered, agenda driven Main Stream Media).
Therefore, a complete and accurate cost-versus-benefits analysis, rather than a one-sided analysis, shows that widespread firearms ownership by ordinary nonviolent citizens provides a great net benefit to society, and greatly reduces the overall violence rate. Private firearms ownership should be strongly encouraged rather than discouraged or prohibited.
Scientific research by Professor Gary Kleck found that defense with a firearm is significantly safer and more effective than any other method, including non-resistance.
Gun control laws that target, restrict, punish, and harass ordinary law-abiding citizens, who have no criminal intent, are both counter-productive and immoral. The right to self-defense, which necessarily includes the right to own firearms, is the safest and most effective means of self-defense.
I feel less empowered when I have a firearm in my hands, because I respect it and know how powerful it is? Do you anti gun cooks ever posts anything other than "You guys have guns to act tough"? Criminals carry guns to act tough. Law abiding , responsible carry it for sport and to defend.
The real pansies are those who refuse to defend themselves and their neighbors, and rather call the police.
The real pansies are the feminists who hate guns and outsource their well being and defense to men with guns.
Keyboard commandos = pansies. All talk and no action.
Exactly right....which explains why liberals have turned a blind eye to the scourge of black-on-black killings that take place by the thousands every year in places like Chicago and beyond. Those onesies and twosies just don't matter. But a mass killing in Connecticut? Why, it's time to demolish the 2nd Amendment!!
Like you give a rats behind about the gangland shootings in Chitown.
liberals have turned a blind eye to the scourge of black-on-black killings that take place by the thousands every year in places like Chicago and beyond.
And, what has anyone heard from conservatives or republicans about this?
Nothing.
Thanks for making that point a non issue.
Next drivel please......
The now anti gun nuts, like that investor I mentioned earlier to the knee jerk reaction? all fricken liberals no doubt!
Funny, I don't see anti-gun nuts going on rampages and murdering multiple people.
Nope, I don't.
Might want to look at the gun nuts, they're more dangerous.
And deadly.
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