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I ask again, what do you postulate as the cause of the supposedly disturbing upward trend of mass shootings that your data doesn't actually support since 2010? The AWB expired a full six years prior to this "increase" that isn't actually an increase, because the FBI data you linked was not for mass shootings.
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I take it you decided to ignore the report, but the active shooter report showed at increase in mass shootings You read the title and decided "hah it says active!"
However this is another issue we have a rise in the number of people who are aiming to kill a bunch of people, anyway of those events many turned out to also be mass murders. 64 of those events were mass murders.
There's also the major issue that our shootings tend to out number the amount of people killed in school/mall/ public space shootings than all other OECD countries combined.
You could could combine all the other countries and stretch out their crimes over several years and we'd still be ahead.
WE have lower rates of theft and lower rates of assaults yet when it comes to shootings we just lead the pack, so it's not that we are just a violent country.
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Only thing you have wrong there is the "flash suppressor". A flash suppressor or hider does not reduce the noise, it reduces the... flash. It is designed to reduce the chances that the shooter will be blinded in low-light conditions. I can attest it is still pretty bright even with a flash suppressor, better close one eye. Sound suppressors or silencers are designed to reduce the noise and flash, exactly like a car muffler. Sound suppressors are legal almost everywhere, you just need to pay for an extra "tax stamp" of about $200.
I bought my AR-15 in 2004, post-ban. It has all of these features. It has failed to kill any people as of today. In fact, it has failed to fire itself even once without me pulling the trigger manually. But, there is always tomorrow.
I would contend that the root cause of the uptick in mass shooting is economic disparity. It's pretty well documented that large wealth inequality leads to an uptick in mental a problems for the populace. Couple that with the population becoming increasingly mixed, leading to increasing racial tensions. The 330,000,000 guns laying around in this country is just the fuel, an easy way for people to slaughter with weaponry that's trivial to aquire for everyone but felons and pants on head visibly crazy people.
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Anything they want. See: National Socialist German Worker's Party. Hell, look at the Obama administration using the IRS against political opponents. The zealotry is already there, just waiting for the right opportunity.
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This is pretty spot on. Hope is the only thing that keeps millions of people sane. When you take away their hope and replace it with "change" they begin to misplace their marbles.
Get a stopwatch and time the reload yourself, it's more than a half a second, sure, but it's one second more, not a few, the reload takes 1.5 seconds... I don't see how anything would change with that.
Lets not forget that, even if 11+ round magazines were banned, they could just grab a cheap 3d printer and make 30rd mags themselves... As I said earlier, if the person is going to go on a murder/suicide spree, they aren't going to care if they spend more than they can pay back on their credit card beforehand.
A gun is like a parachute. If you need one, and don’t have one, you’ll probably never need one again.
If that were the case why are mass murderers not opting to go black market and aquiring a fully automatic ak-74 with 100 round drum mags? Or mounting a .50 cal to their car?
Ease of access is a huge part of the issue, don't kid yourself. Low hanging fruit and all that.
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and if we put governors on all cars so they cant ever go over the highest allotted speed limit just think of all the lives that can be saved
why do you want a car that can travel faster then the highest allotted speed limit? more people are killed every year from people speeding then guns by far
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