Comments by "" (@DavidJ222) on "Nashville police release security footage in school shooting" video.

  1. Republicans: "There's absolutely nothing we can do. We're just congressional legislators after all, so our hands are tied. Those kids just had it coming."
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  2. In 1994, Congress passed the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act — commonly called the assault weapons ban. It prohibited the manufacture or sale for civilian use of certain semi-automatic weapons. The act also banned magazines that could accommodate 10 rounds or more. In 2004, the Republican led Congress refused to renew the 10 year assault weapons ban after it expired. Before the 1994 ban: From 1981 – the earliest year in our analysis – to the rollout of the assault weapons ban in 1994, the proportion of deaths in MassShootings in which an assault rifle was used was lower than it is today. During the 1994-2004 ban: In the years after the assault weapons ban went into effect, the number of deaths from mass shootings fell, and the increase in the annual number of incidents slowed down. Even including 1999’s Columbine High MassShooting...during the period of the ban – the 1994 to 2004 period saw lower average annual rates of both massShootings andD€aths resulting from such incidents than before the ban’s inception. From 2004 onward: The data shows an almost immediate – and steep – rise in mass shootingD€aths in the years after the assault weapons ban expired in 2004. Breaking the data into absolute numbers, between 2004 and 2017 – the last year of our analysis – the average number of yearlyD€aths attributed to massShootings was 25, compared with 5.3 during the 10-year tenure of the ban and 7.2 in the years leading up to the prohibition on assault weapons. Saving hundreds of lives We calculated that the risk of a person in the U.S. dying in a massShooting was 70% lower during the period in which the assault weapons ban was active.
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  3. ​@PreCiise Gaming Ban assault rifles. That alone would save lives. It's a weapon of mass destruction, and has no business being sold to the public.
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  4. ​ @PreCiise82  In 1994, Congress passed the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act — commonly called the assault weapons ban. It prohibited the manufacture or sale for civilian use of certain semi-automatic weapons. The act also banned magazines that could accommodate 10 rounds or more. In 2004, the Republican led Congress refused to renew the 10 year assault weapons ban after it expired. Before the 1994 ban: From 1981 – the earliest year in our analysis – to the rollout of the assault weapons ban in 1994, the proportion of deaths in MassShootings in which an assault rifle was used was lower than it is today. During the 1994-2004 ban: In the years after the assault weapons ban went into effect, the number of deaths from mass shootings fell, and the increase in the annual number of incidents slowed down. Even including 1999’s Columbine High MassShooting...during the period of the ban – the 1994 to 2004 period saw lower average annual rates of both massShootings andD€aths resulting from such incidents than before the ban’s inception. From 2004 onward: The data shows an almost immediate – and steep – rise in mass shootingD€aths in the years after the assault weapons ban expired in 2004. Breaking the data into absolute numbers, between 2004 and 2017 – the last year of our analysis – the average number of yearlyD€aths attributed to massShootings was 25, compared with 5.3 during the 10-year tenure of the ban and 7.2 in the years leading up to the prohibition on assault weapons. Saving hundreds of lives We calculated that the risk of a person in the U.S. dying in a massShooting was 70% lower during the period in which the assault weapons ban was active.
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