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Title is mine, not theirs. But is basically the conclusion they came to when they reviewed proposed laws vs mass shootings.
Sure, they might stop a few specific incidences, but they will also cause unnecessary harm by preventing some law abiding citizens from defending themselves. And criminals will ignore them altogether and find another way.
Better argument - New York Times Examines Mass Shootings and Gun Laws; Their Findings "Dispiriting to Anyone Hoping for Simple Legislative Fixes to Gun Violence" - Hit & Run : Reason.com
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/22/u...prod=nytcore-iphone&smid=nytcore-iphone-share
The findings are dispiriting to anyone hoping for simple legislative fixes to gun violence. In more than half the 130 cases, at least one assailant was already barred by federal law from having a weapon, usually because of a felony conviction, but nonetheless acquired a gun. Including those who lacked the required state or local permits, 64 percent of the shootings involved at least one attacker who violated an existing gun law.
Of the remaining assailants, 40 percent had never had a serious run-in with the law and probably could have bought a gun even in states with the strictest firearm controls. Typically those were men who killed their families and then themselves.
Only 14 shootings involved assault rifles, illustrating their outsize role in the gun debate. Nearly every other assailant used a handgun. That is in line with a federal study that concluded that reviving a 1994 ban on assault weapons and ammunition feeding devices that hold more than 10 rounds would have a minimal impact, at best, on gun violence.
Sure, they might stop a few specific incidences, but they will also cause unnecessary harm by preventing some law abiding citizens from defending themselves. And criminals will ignore them altogether and find another way.
Better argument - New York Times Examines Mass Shootings and Gun Laws; Their Findings "Dispiriting to Anyone Hoping for Simple Legislative Fixes to Gun Violence" - Hit & Run : Reason.com