• dope@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      That wasn’t his argument at all.

      He said that we have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30.

      So for 170 years we have no mass shootings. Then for 30 we have them.

      So what changed?

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        1 year ago

        Culture, politics, financial well being, careers, but also allowing the assault weapons ban to lapse in 2004.

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          Violent crime has actually decreased since that assault weapons ban ended.

          Assault weapons were also still available to buy with high capacity magazines DURING the ban. It was completely ineffective actually.