The fact is that you had to go back seven yaars to find an American style mass shooting.
Well, no, I didn't. That one just came to mind. But, yes, I will concede there are more "American-style" mass shootings in the United States, although I could have mentioned other countries like Mexico, which has one gun store and about 30,000 people murdered a year. A number of mass shootings have occurred there in recent years, such as the 2019 massacre of nine people in La Mora, Sonora, or the 2021 massacre of migrants who were shot and had their corpses burned in Camargo, Tamaulipas.
In general, rifles of all types are used in about 300 homicides a year. While any death is a personal tragedy, those numbers pale in comparison to the
six or seven thousand homicides a year committed using handguns. Many if not most of those victims are black. Many of the perpetrators are already prohibited from legally owning or possessing a firearm, because they're either under-age, convicted felons, or using a weapon obtained illegally. Most mass shootings involve handguns.
So my question to you is why are you focused on "assault rifles," which fall into the rifle category? Is it because they're scary looking to the public and you think there's a better chance of getting them banned? I mean, you have to start somewhere, right? Where would the bans stop? Because it would soon become apparent that a ban on these weapons would be a flop. I mean, one of the worst mass murders in American history, Columbine, occurred during the last so-called assault weapons and high-capacity magazine ban. And do you honestly believe any ban of these weapons would stop someone who is hellbent on committing mass murder? What's to stop him from using a homemade bomb or a vehicle, as in the 2016 Nice terrorist incident in which 86 people were killed and 458 others were injured in less than a minute? Why are you ignoring the black genocide? You need to snap out of your utopian fantasyland and check in with the dystopian reality of progressivism's lax attitude towards criminals. Progressive legislators, judges, parole boards, and DA's have probably killed more people with their idiot policies of releasing violent criminals back into society than crazed white guys wielding assault weapons, Rambo-style.
Handguns are the most common weapons used in mass shootings in the United States. Other types of guns used in mass shootings include rifles and shotguns.
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