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Gun Control & RKBA

benEzra

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5. You dredged up a story from eleven YEARS ago?

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Fri Jan 8, 2016, 09:36 PM

Jan 2016

Since that was written, at least a hundred million new guns were purchased by U.S. gun owners, and the murder rate dropped. The "assault weapon ban" expired, and rifle murders dropped. Now, eleven years later, the U.S. murder rate is at historic lows.

It's ironic that even back in 2004 in that article, gun control advocates acknowledged that modern-looking rifles weren't a crime problem, even though rifle crime was higher then than it is now. Though that hasn't stopped you guys from trying to outlaw them...

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Death by the Barrel [View all] SecularMotion Jan 2016 OP

I thought this was going to be about mustard gas. ileus Jan 2016 #1

! pablo_marmol Jan 2016 #4

Right. Straw Man Jan 2016 #2

"It's nice," he says, "to have raised my son in Massachusetts, where he is so much safer." pablo_marmol Jan 2016 #3

You dredged up a story from eleven YEARS ago? benEzra Jan 2016 #5

Well, it ages better in a "barrel." Eleanors38 Jan 2016 #6