▪️Claiming the “assault weapons ban” had a large effect on mass shootings is nonsensical, for the simple reason the vast majority of mass shootings don’t involve “assault weapons.” Plus, mass shooting stats vary widely from year to year without change in gun laws. This year has seen a remarkable decrease, for example.
▪️Most (nearly all) mass shootings are gang-style shootings. Drive-bys, shootings at parties, clubs or other get togethers where criminals are targeting each other, and they typically involve handguns. Lone-wolf style mass shootings targeting random people are rare, and make up a tiny fraction of mass shooting statistics.
▪️From 2019-2020, mass shootings increased almost 50%! Then another 12% in 2021, before declining the last few years. This had nothing to do to do with changes in assault weapon laws, but the wave of inner city violence that spiked in ‘20-21.
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org
▪️If they had passed an “assault weapons ban” recently, this year’s large decline in mass shootings would be highlighted endlessly, “you see what happens with common sense gun legislation!” But since there was no new laws, few media outlets have even covered it.
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
