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minus-squarestrangehill2dieon@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15arrow-down7·1 year agoHmmm I wonder why there weren’t any mass shootings TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO. What a ridiculous argument
minus-squaredope@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down3·edit-21 year agoThat wasn’t his argument at all. He said that we have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30. So for 170 years we have no mass shootings. Then for 30 we have them. So what changed?
minus-squareFrog-Brawler@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoCulture, politics, financial well being, careers, but also allowing the assault weapons ban to lapse in 2004.
minus-squareRaoulDook@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·1 year agoViolent crime has actually decreased since that assault weapons ban ended. Assault weapons were also still available to buy with high capacity magazines DURING the ban. It was completely ineffective actually.
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minus-squareDultas@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up6arrow-down5·1 year agoKinda hard to have a mass shooting with a flintlock.
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minus-squareBruno_Myers@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down2·1 year agoclearly it was all the good guys with guns stopping them.
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minus-squareSomeAmateur@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-21 year agoThis was made in 1881 a few months after the assassination of James Garfield Mass shootings weren’t commonplace, but the talking points sure were
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minus-squareSomeAmateur@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-21 year agoAmerica’s debate on guns has gone on well before mass shootings, and that the exact same points are brought up. Back then the big scary weapon was the revolver. My point is none of this is truly new.
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Hmmm I wonder why there weren’t any mass shootings TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO. What a ridiculous argument
That wasn’t his argument at all.
He said that we have had guns for 200 years but mass shootings only became common in the last 30.
So for 170 years we have no mass shootings. Then for 30 we have them.
So what changed?
Culture, politics, financial well being, careers, but also allowing the assault weapons ban to lapse in 2004.
Violent crime has actually decreased since that assault weapons ban ended.
Assault weapons were also still available to buy with high capacity magazines DURING the ban. It was completely ineffective actually.
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Kinda hard to have a mass shooting with a flintlock.
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clearly it was all the good guys with guns stopping them.
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potential shooters from 1911
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This was made in 1881 a few months after the assassination of James Garfield
Mass shootings weren’t commonplace, but the talking points sure were
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America’s debate on guns has gone on well before mass shootings, and that the exact same points are brought up. Back then the big scary weapon was the revolver.
My point is none of this is truly new.
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