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Johns Hopkins Study: No Evidence ‘Assault Weapon’ Bans Reduce Mass Shootings
Breitbart.com ^ | 2/18/2020 | AWR Hawkins

Posted on 02/18/2020 11:29:54 AM PST by rktman

A study released by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health declares there is no evidence “assault weapon” bans lead to a lower “incidence of fatal mass shootings.”

The push for an “assault weapons” ban is central to the Democrats’ gun control agenda nationally and is front and center for Democrats at the state level in places like Arizona and Virginia.

According to the Johns Hopkins study, researchers”did not find an independent association between assault weapon bans and the incidence of fatal mass shootings.”

Researchers did claim licensing requirements like those in Connecticut help reduce the number of mass shootings, but their study omitted the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School in which 26 were killed at the school and another victim was killed in a private home.

In other words, a study which claims licensing reduces instances of mass shootings omitted one of the most often cited mass shootings in U.S. history, even though that shooting occurred in a licensing state.

Moreover, John Hopkins’ criteria for licensing laws allowed them to bypass Illinois which, in turn, allowed them to sidestep the never ending gun crime of Chicago.

But the study was clear there is no evidence tying “assault weapons” to a lower incidence of mass shootings.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


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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?
1 posted on 02/18/2020 11:29:54 AM PST by rktman
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Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health ...
2 posted on 02/18/2020 11:32:47 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer (The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people's money.)
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do not lower the incidences of mass shootings...

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

and do not shush me.


3 posted on 02/18/2020 11:33:32 AM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world)
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So they lied...but did say part of the truth.


4 posted on 02/18/2020 11:34:41 AM PST by Osage Orange (Whiskey Tango Foxtrot)
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“sidestep the never ending gun crime of Chicago.”

These are not “mass murders”.


5 posted on 02/18/2020 11:34:48 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

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


6 posted on 02/18/2020 11:35:42 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs)
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Come and take it.


7 posted on 02/18/2020 11:38:47 AM PST by sauropod (David Horowitz: “Inside every progressive is a totalitarian screaming to get out.”)
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Columbine happened during the last nationwide assault weapons ban.


8 posted on 02/18/2020 11:39:42 AM PST by colorado tanker
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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.


9 posted on 02/18/2020 11:40:10 AM PST by SpaceBar
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Probably because it is extremely difficult to sneak an assault rifle into a gun free zone.


10 posted on 02/18/2020 11:41:27 AM PST by Telepathic Intruder
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I’m not surprised


11 posted on 02/18/2020 11:44:47 AM PST by guitar Josh
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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.


12 posted on 02/18/2020 11:46:29 AM PST by Manly Warrior (US ARMY (Ret), "No Free Lunches for the Dogs of War")
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"...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...

13 posted on 02/18/2020 11:52:20 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is Sam Adams now that we desperately need him)
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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


14 posted on 02/18/2020 12:18:07 PM PST by Bob434
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Citizens of NY need to sue NY for violating their second amendment rights for no reason at all


15 posted on 02/18/2020 12:19:15 PM PST by Bob434
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While it looked like an assault weapon, the semi-auto rifle young Adam Lanza used at Sandy Hook, was actually “Connecticut compliant.”


16 posted on 02/18/2020 12:54:50 PM PST by umgud
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17 posted on 02/18/2020 12:55:38 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: teeman8r

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


18 posted on 02/18/2020 1:09:45 PM PST by TokarevM57
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“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.


19 posted on 02/18/2020 1:18:54 PM PST by ThunderSleeps ( Be ready!)
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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?


20 posted on 02/18/2020 1:24:43 PM PST by dontBSme
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