CONCLUSION: Mass-shooting related homicides in the United States were reduced during the years of the federal assault weapons ban of 1994 to 2004. https://journals.lww.com/jtrauma/Abstract/2019/01000/Changes_in_US_mass_shooting_deaths_associated_with.2.aspx
LINK: The Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act or Federal Assault Weapons Ban (AWB) was a subsection of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994, a United States federal law which included a prohibition on the manufacture for civilian use of certain semi-automatic firearms that were defined as assault weapons as well as certain ammunition magazines that were defined as large capacity.
The 10-year ban was passed by the U.S. Congress on August 25, 1994 and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on September 13, 1994.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Assault_Weapons_Ban
On FaceBorg SE Said:
Whenever people attempt to have a rational conversation about gun safety or common-sense gun laws, some gun nut always brings up the subject of gang violence in Chicago. Because there are gang-related shootings and street crimes in Chicago and other cities, somehow this cancels out the need to do anything about mass shootings. To me, it's apples and oranges. Yes, gang-related shootings are a problem, but it's not at all on the same level as mass shootings. I'm not sure if there is any way to stop gangs from wanting to kill people in rival gangs. But to compare this to a school shooting is ludicrous.
JD Replied: Chicago is also really close to Indiana which has very lax gun laws. So, while the city of Chicago does have strict laws, a lot of the guns on the street in Chicago were purchased in Indiana.
VKK Said: Apparently as of 2020, the leading cause of death for kids is mass shootings. Not cancer, not car accidents. Mass shootings.
AI Said: it's guns in general including accidental discharges that are the leading cause of death for children, not mass shootings. Not that this makes it any better and not that I have the stats at hand to show you (that article is in an open tab on my work computer) but I had this discussion just after one of last month's mass shootings. And what a fucking horrible sentence THAT is.
I Said: Outlaw Guns, Collect Guns, Melt Guns. It's Not Complicated. I have to point out the Facts... Most of that "Gang Related" Murder is Really Black on Black Crime. Ask your Gun Nut Friends When they Started Caring so much about the lives of Black Men. Was It When George Floyd was Murdered? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_George_Floyd
NI Said: Gang shootings aren't just limited to gang on gang tho. Lots of innocent bystanders, especially young kids, get caught in the cross fire too.
SE Replied: True, but it's still unreasonable to try to compare them to mass shootings. Apples and oranges.
I Repeated Myself: If we simply Outlawed Guns, Collected Guns and Melted Guns there would be Fewer Gun Deaths... Fewer Gang Related Deaths... Fewer Suicides... Fewer Massacres in Schools... Fewer Deaths by Accidert... It's Not Complicated.
SE Said: I agree, I wish we could do what they've done in other countries where mass shootings aren't a problem like they are in the USA. But unfortunately, the 2nd Amendment apparently makes it impossible to do the obvious. We can't outlaw guns, but there is no reason why we can't regulate them better. The 2nd Amendment does not prohibit us from doing that much.
I Replied: It only Takes 60 Votes in the US Senate and We Can Get Things Done. Campaign Online for Democrats Nationwide...
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/04/whip-inflation-now.html
We Need to Outlaw Guns... The Problem IS GUNS! Not Video Games, Not Lack of Jesus in the Schools, Not Missing Fathers... The Problem Is Too Many Guns... IT'S GUNS! Write to Your Senator and Tell 'em What You Think! I Just Did...
https://www.senate.gov/senators/senators-contact.htm
If Marching in the Streets Waving a Sign that Says BAN ASSAULT WEAPONS is What YOU DO, Then By All Means DO THAT!
On a Different Subject:
Backstory (~);-} The Origin of Grateful Dead Artwork, Logo, Icons - Skull and Roses, Dancing Bears, Steal Your Face, AoxoMoxoA... Mouse, Kelley, Owsley, Bob Thomas, Rick Griffin, Wes Wilson, Victor Moscone, Bob Seidemann
Stanley "Mouse" Miller said: We [Miller and collaborator Alton Kelley] would go to the San Francisco library and peruse the books on poster art. They had a back room full of books you couldn’t take out with great references. We were just going through that and looking for something. And found this thing and thought, “This says Grateful Dead all over it.” I hate to say this, but Kelley cut it out with a pen knife. I always say that we Xeroxed it, but there weren’t Xerox machines then. I finally found it about two years ago, the actual cut-out piece, and I went, “Oh, my God.” It’s from the book of poems “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam.” The edition was done by an artist called Edmund Sullivan. And the poem that goes with this illustration is fantastic. It’s short and sweet and had to do with wine, women and song.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._J._Sullivan
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