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Edited by RighteousTyrant:
1/16/2013 5:22:01 PM
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Do "assault weapons" bans work? A statistician's view.
[quote]Now let’s look at the shaded region on the plot, which is the time the Orwellian-named “Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act”, i.e. “‘Assault’3 Weapons Ban”, was in force, from 13 September 1994 until the same date in 2004. [u]There does not appear to be much correlation between this ban and the homicide rate: homicides both decrease and increase during the time which it was in force.[/u][/quote]
Much more at the link above. [b][u]In short, the 1994 assault weapons ban accomplished nothing[/u][/b] that can be discerned from looking at various trends in violent crimes.
And yet we're being told that it is the solution (to what problem?).
*sigh*
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Edited by A Squeaky Pooltoy: 10/5/2013 4:09:16 PMFocusing on guns is a superficial answer to a much more fundamental problem, but it agrees with politics so politicians push it. As the saying goes, where there is a will there is a way, so banning guns wouldn't stop the really determined and messed up people. Further, historically in the US, banning things has had very much not the effect that was desired, i.e. Prohibition and the War on Drugs.
