ABC News: New Gun Laws Wouldn’t Prevent Mass Shootings

[txradioguy]

Every time there is a mass shooting, anti-gun groups and politicians start clamoring for more gun laws. It has actually gotten to the point where it is very predictable. With the next presidential election getting closer each day, the rhetoric has reached epic proportions. ABC News, however, has taken an actual look at some of the proposed gun laws and determined they wouldn’t have made a difference; in most cases, the shooters purchased their guns legally.

Laws that have been passed in the aftermath of some of the most extreme instances of gun violence in the U.S. would not have necessarily prevented previous shootings, according to an ABC News analysis.

“For example, while much focus has been put on curbing the illegal sale of guns, an analysis of all 17 shootings over the last two decades where 10 or more victims died shows that each of the massacres involved legally purchased guns.”

The report also states that there were three instances of someone purchasing the guns legally, before the shooter obtained them illegally. In both the Sandy Hook and Santa Fe incidents, the shooters stole the guns from there parents. However, the Columbine shooters got their guns via a straw purchase. In all three of these instances, the shooters committed a crime to obtain the guns.

The rest of the shooters went through background checks and legally purchased firearms. They then broke numerous laws when they used these guns to commit heinous acts.

https://www.personaldefenseworld.com/2019/06/abc-news-gun-laws-shootings/

[rustynail]

But if it saves just.....

[txradioguy]

But if it saves just.....

 

[Smokin Joe]

The bottom line is that there are laws against shooting people already, except in narrowly defined circumstances.

There are laws against sticking them with knives, bludgeoning them, slasher attacks (as opposed to sticking them), and a host of other methods of depriving a person of a heartbeat, including taking motor vehicles and running them into pedestrians and the misuse of explosives.

Despite all those laws, from making Sarin Gas in trash bags on the subway to blowing up rental vehicles and backpacks full of junk, no one is calling for banning trash bags (except maybe California, and for different reasons), rental vehicles, or backpacks, yet all have been instruments of mass casualty incidents.

The salient difference between those items and guns, is that guns provide (in the right hands) a means to stop the other events.