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Gun Control & RKBA

Lizzie Poppet

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3. Once again: mass shootings shouldn't drive gun policy.

Reply to SecularMotion (Original post)

Wed Aug 5, 2015, 10:59 AM

Aug 2015

Even with the convenient reclassification of any shooting with more than one victim as a "mass shooting," they are enormously outnumbered by single-victim shootings, a large percentage of which are drug-related and/or carried out by persons with significant criminal records. Our first priority should be a combination of ending the insane Drug War and taking steps to limit the flow of handguns to criminals.

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G.O.P. Candidates and Mass Shootings [View all] SecularMotion Aug 2015 OP

"Despite the repeated horror of mass shootings in churches, movie theaters and schoolrooms" Nuclear Unicorn Aug 2015 #1

We shouldn't crow about our regressive stance on the 2A. ileus Aug 2015 #2

Once again: mass shootings shouldn't drive gun policy. Lizzie Poppet Aug 2015 #3

I don't think you're correct. flamin lib Aug 2015 #4

I'll try and find the original research. Lizzie Poppet Aug 2015 #5

Not asking about mass shootings, but the idea that drugs and gangs cause the most deaths. nt flamin lib Aug 2015 #6

Ah, I see. Here is a good source. Lizzie Poppet Aug 2015 #7

Here. See Table 15 and Figure 29. benEzra Aug 2015 #8