Johns Hopkins Study: No Evidence ‘Assault Weapon’ Bans Reduce Mass Shootings

Breitbart.com ^ | 2/18/2020 | AWR Hawkins

[rktman]

SHhhhhhhhhhhhh! We must ban them anyway just in case. And, we all know how 2nd amendment friendly john hopkins is. And, since there are actually so few of these incidences, how would one know if they were reduced anyway?

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ...

[teeman8r]

do not lower the incidences of mass shootings...

how about a study that shows the defensive use of firearms...

and do not shush me.

[Osage Orange]

So they lied...but did say part of the truth.

[the OlLine Rebel]

“sidestep the never ending gun crime of Chicago.”

These are not “mass murders”.

[the OlLine Rebel]

Yup. Mortifies me the pediatric wing is named for this louse, and the adjoining cardiac for a damned Moslem sheikh.

[sauropod]

Come and take it.

[colorado tanker]

Columbine happened during the last nationwide assault weapons ban.

[SpaceBar]

Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union had severe assault weapons restrictions and yet mass shootings were commonplace. I guess they left those most notable and important cases out of their study.

[Telepathic Intruder]

Probably because it is extremely difficult to sneak an assault rifle into a gun free zone.

[guitar Josh]

I’m not surprised

[Manly Warrior]

Not able all. No sneaking required, but anyway, many mass shootings where an”aslt wpn” was used, the weapon was sneaked in via backpack etc.

[SuperLuminal]

"...there is no evidence “assault weapon” bans lead to a lower “incidence of fatal mass shootings.”

Shocking! Who could have believed such a thing? Snicker...

[Bob434]

so there really wasn’t an ‘Imminent Need” like NY claimed to rush through their ban-

And they aren’t ‘Assault Weapons’- they are rifles- single shot- no selective fire to make them full auto

[Bob434]

Citizens of NY need to sue NY for violating their second amendment rights for no reason at all

[umgud]

While it looked like an assault weapon, the semi-auto rifle young Adam Lanza used at Sandy Hook, was actually “Connecticut compliant.”

[Hatteras]

[TokarevM57]

.....” Calling Virginia Governor Ralph Northam....
Calling Ralph Northam.....please pick up the
phone.....there is an urgent message for you....”

[ThunderSleeps]

“Assault weapons” bans, magazine bans, in fact bans of any type, including virtually every single “gun control” and/or licensing law have absolutely nothing to do with improving public safety. They demonstrably do not work. So why do people keep advocating for them? It isn’t about safety, it is about control. It is about incremental disarmament.

[dontBSme]

FINAL PARAPRAPH

“The study was supported by The Joyce Foundation and Dr. Webster’s professorship funded by the Bloomberg American Health Initiative.”

Why am I not surprised?