From a college paper, in California no less
This lack of correlation between gun control and violent crime rates would indicate that gun control on the whole does not do what HCI, Million Mom March, and the Brady Campaign, an influential gun-control advocacy group, says. It doesn’t reduce violent crime rates.
A report by the Brady Campaign states there has been a decrease in the amount of gun traces of “assault weapons” since the passing of the Federal Crime Bill. It also claims this decline is “extremely significant to law enforcement and has clearly enhanced public safety, especially since these military-style weapons are among the deadliest ever sold on the civilian market.”
It shouldn’t be a surprise that after it became illegal to manufacture or sell particular kinds of firearms, they became less common. “Assault weapons,” however, are not inherently more dangerous than hunting rifles, hunting shotguns, and handguns.
The term “assault weapon” was invented to describe guns that looked scary to average people and has little meaning to those familiar with firearms. Examples include the AR-15 and AK-47, which are loosely based on weapons used by The American and Russian militaries.
Read the whole thing.
October 6th, 2004 at 8:23 am
Spot. On.
Too bad logic and facts are powerless against the Dark Hordes.
October 7th, 2004 at 8:20 am
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