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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Handgun attacks are less deadly. [/quote]

It amazes me that DCUMers forget the deadliest school shooting was at Virginia Tech on April 16th, 2007. The deranged shooter used two pistols.

[quote=Anonymous]The data shows a steep and immediate rise in shooting deaths after the ban expired, and long after the creation of the 24 hour news cycle.[/quote]

Rifle murders did not increase after the 1994 assault weapon ban sunset. They went down, and stayed down. The FBI posts yearly comprehensive crime statistics.[/quote]

On your first point, the shooter had a documented history of severe mental health issues, including suicidal ideation and disturbing behavior. Yet critical information was never shared between mental health professionals, campus officials, and law enforcement due to weak laws and broken communications, such as a lack of effective red-flag laws.  Your guy Trump even repealed red-flag provisions put in place to try and prevent another Virginia Tech. Likewise, it's a significant failing to have a broken system that does not allow law enforcement to have a persistent, searchable database tracking gun transfers to help identify the straw buyers and bad actors who are funneling vast numbers of guns to gangs and criminals.  We do indeed need quite a few reforms even just to allow "the existing laws on the books" to be more effectively enforced.  Doing nothing is absolutely not an answer.  We need solutions and as has been repeatedly been pointed out to you, if you aren't part of that solution then you are part of the problem.  You are complicit in gun violence.

On your second point you're being misleading.  Mass shooting deaths and frequency increased sharply after the 2004 expiration of the Assault Weapons Ban - Gun massacres (6+ killed) rose by 183%, and deaths rose by 239% in the decade after the ban.  Assault-style rifles were used in many of the deadliest shootings post-ban, including Sandy Hook, Las Vegas, and Uvalde.[/quote]

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