RT @NoLieWithBTC
The red line is when Republicans ended the national assault weapons ban.
@froomkin The objection of a gun rights advocate is going to be that this shows correlation not causation...
I usually think of Australia as the prime example of gun control reducing violence but then I read this and things became less clear: https://www.rand.org/research/gun-policy/analysis/essays/1996-national-firearms-agreement.html
I am concerned that the arguments currently utilized are not airtight and that there won't be any agreement on taking positive steps without tighter evidence.
@davidshq @froomkin Bingo. Responsible gun owners are all for reasonable gun control, and most of us are happy to explain to non-gun-owners exactly how legislators should do it to make everyone safer.
But, instead of listening to these suggestions, our ideological opponents tend to just push for bans of weapons, using grouping classifications they can barely define because they don't understand the subject.
