ZeroCool@feddit.ch to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months ago"It's a mental health problem!"i.postimg.ccimagemessage-square484fedilinkarrow-up11.28Karrow-down1100
arrow-up11.18Karrow-down1image"It's a mental health problem!"i.postimg.ccZeroCool@feddit.ch to Political Memes@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agomessage-square484fedilink
minus-squaredope@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·edit-211 months agoThat 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?
minus-squareFrog-Brawler@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoCulture, politics, financial well being, careers, but also allowing the assault weapons ban to lapse in 2004.
minus-squareRaoulDook@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·11 months agoViolent 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.
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?
Culture, politics, financial well being, careers, but also allowing the assault weapons ban to lapse in 2004.
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.