• Greater regulation will disempower underprivileged people who face very serious violent threats. • A total ban on "assault weapons" will save relatively few lives: What happens if this shinobi keeps his gun and you don't?
Banning Assault Rifles Won't Help: • The average age of mass shooters is 34, implying that raising the minimum age for obtaining weapons will not target the primary perpetrators of large public shootings. • Few mass shooters have used “high-capacity magazines,”
• There is no evidence that the lethality of their attacks would have been affected by delays of 2 to 4 seconds to switch magazines. Some of the largest mass shootings in U.S. history were with “low-capacity weapons."
• The Virginia Tech gunman used two pistols, one with a 10-round magazine and the other with a 15-round magazine, to murder 32 people and wound 17. He only had 19 additional magazines.
• A guy with two 9mm pistols, capable of max magazines of 15 and 17 rounds, murdered 23 people and wounded another 20 in a Killeen, TX, cafe. • A mentally ill guy with 2 pistols and murdered 21 and wounded 19 at a San Ysidro McDonald's. The pistols used 13- and 20-round mags.
• Why do Democrats ignore the person behind the gun? According to one study, 60 percent of mass public shooters had been diagnosed with a mental disorder or had demonstrated signs of serious mental illness prior to the attack.
The most recent mass shooting occurred in Nashville, Tennessee, on March 28, 2023. The shooter was identified as Audrey Hale, a 28-year-old transgender female that left 3 adults and 3 children dead. Today NBC reported that the Covenant School shooter also has a mental disorder.
• A large body of research shows a statistical link between mass public killings and serious untreated psychiatric illness. The most commonly diagnosed illnesses among mass public shooters are paranoid schizophrenia and severe depression.
People Will Still Muder Without Guns: • Prior to the 2016 Orlando nightclub massacre, the worst assault on the LGBT community in America happened in 1973, when an arsonist murdered 32 people and wounded 15 more at New Orleans' Upstairs Lounge.
• In 1987, a disgruntled former airline employee kidnapped and purposely crashed a passenger airliner, killing 43 people. • In 1990, an enraged ex-lover set fire to the Happy Land social club where his ex-girlfriend worked, killing 87 people.
• A truck bomb parked outside the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, killed 168 people and wounded over 600 more in 1995. • In 2021 a Darrell Brooks drove a SUV through the annual Christmas parade in Waukesha, killing 6people and injuring 62 others
Removing Guns Increases Terrorism: • In other countries, bombings, mass stabbings, and automobile assaults routinely kill more people than even the bloodiest mass shootings in the United States. Take a look at the following:
@dom_lucre Darrell was hardly mentioned during the corrupt news outlets..they covered for him and who he killed and left injured! Downplayed like it was the CARS FAULT!
@dom_lucre So because someone uses a car than all the gun deaths are excused?
@dom_lucre I'm sure it was the farmers fault since fertilizer was used, correct?
@dom_lucre I live in Waukesha, this one hit home.
@dom_lucre Some guy in China stabbed 130 people in one spree, killing 33. nbcnews.com/news/amp/ncna4…