Desertdog
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Case for weapons ban inflated
http://firearmnews.com/page2.asp?id=6010
Sunday, October 03, 2004
"Should it be renewed, the (assault weapons ban) ban's effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement." That bombshell admission appears in a report prepared for the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology.
The report also revealed that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apparently overstated the use of these firearms in crimes during the 1980s and 1990s. The report also noted that even before the ban took effect, so-called assault weapons were used "in only a small fraction of gun crime -- about 2 percent according to most studies."
People who were not told these facts have the wrong opinion about the need for renewal of the ban. I believe, as do many others, that the people who are in government positions and campaign for the ban would like to see all guns banned and see this as a step in that direction.
Also, the difference between the so-called "assault weapons" and the big game rifles and the varmint hunting rifles that have been in general use for many, many decades is mostly cosmetic, not in firepower.
http://firearmnews.com/page2.asp?id=6010
Sunday, October 03, 2004
"Should it be renewed, the (assault weapons ban) ban's effects on gun violence are likely to be small at best and perhaps too small for reliable measurement." That bombshell admission appears in a report prepared for the Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's Jerry Lee Center of Criminology.
The report also revealed that the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives apparently overstated the use of these firearms in crimes during the 1980s and 1990s. The report also noted that even before the ban took effect, so-called assault weapons were used "in only a small fraction of gun crime -- about 2 percent according to most studies."
People who were not told these facts have the wrong opinion about the need for renewal of the ban. I believe, as do many others, that the people who are in government positions and campaign for the ban would like to see all guns banned and see this as a step in that direction.
Also, the difference between the so-called "assault weapons" and the big game rifles and the varmint hunting rifles that have been in general use for many, many decades is mostly cosmetic, not in firepower.