KMC Forums - 1986 Assault Rifle Ban did not Work

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Originally posted by Blindside12
So why do liberals think it will work now?

https://www.factcheck.org/2013/02/d...apons-ban-work/

https://fee.org/articles/banning-as...not-save-lives/

This is important:

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Koper, Jan. 14: So, using that as a very tentative guide, that�s high enough to suggest that eliminating or greatly reducing crimes with these magazines could produce a small reduction in shootings, likely something less than 5 percent. Now we should note that effects of this magnitude could be hard to ever measure in any very definitive way, but they nonetheless could have nontrivial, notable benefits for society. Consider, for example, at our current level of our gun violence, achieving a 1 percent reduction in fatal and non-fatal criminal shootings would prevent approximately 650 shootings annually � And, of course having these sorts of guns, and particularly magazines, less accessible to offenders could make it more difficult for them to commit the sorts of mass shootings that we�ve seen in recent years.�

So, basically, we have data and evidence that high capacity magazines can reduce shootings or the deadliness of shootings? Not quite certain on the conclusion but it would help.

Seems like I could support this. I've seen the counters to this point showing that it is retarded as hell to put a regulation in place against high capacity magazines because you can either buy one illegally to do your illegal thing (duh) or simply swap out your magazine extremely quickly.