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And yet we're seeing a drop in gun related deaths after it spiked during the pandemic:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6b/1999-_Gun-related_deaths_USA.png
It's too early to call this a trend, but assuming home conversion to full auto is getting common, it has not yet correlated with a rise in gun deaths.
I don't think it will for an important reason: full auto actually sucks. Most people don't know how to use it and tend to spray bullets while hitting nothing. Even the AR15, which has relatively low recoil, is not very accurate when you hold down the trigger like that.
One exception is the 2017 Las Vegas shooting (which was a bump stock, but effectively the same end result). He was shooting into a large crowd where every bullet was all but guaranteed to hit someone. Most mass shootings aren't like that.
The way the military uses full auto isn't necessarily to hit anyone, either. It's to force the enemy to keep their heads down so your side can maneuver into a better position. That's not how a lone mass shooter would operate. They don't have a team where that tactic makes sense.
Yes, there are fewer gun related deaths. But there are more mass shootings and guns have become the # 1 killer of children and teens. Source
this is false, this stat deliberately counts 18 and 19 year olds as “children” and purposefully includes gang related violence. great example of using statistics to sell a story.
how many gang members are going to surrender their firearms after a ban?
Where did you find that? Because the info states ... "Of the 6,192 children and teenagers under 18 who were shot in 2023, more than 1,600 died."
your source links to this source of data, which only goes up to 2021. The table clearly states they’re counting 15 - 19 year olds.
that 6,192 number appears to come from the gunviolencearchive site, but I don’t see any source for their data other than claims that “suicide data provided by CDC”
further, a simple search of the claim “guns number one cause of death in children” will find a lot of valid critiques of this claim.
No it doesn't. For the stats on kids it uses this source from 2024.
yes I know, I mentioned that in my comment. can you tell me where on that page it indicates their source of data?
Here ...
yes, and where does the Gun Violence Archive get their numbers?
looking at their site, the answer is “themselves”… cool. Looking through their listed data it clearly includes gun violence from gang activity.
If you look under their Methodology page, which is at the bottom of the site it tells you.
https://www.gunviolencearchive.org/methodology
I'm not sure what your point is. So what if gun deaths are down since the pandemic? Viewing the chart you submitted as evidence we can pretty much just trace a continuation of the trajectory in gun deaths straight to where they would have been from before the pandemic to after - so they're still trending upward overall. Also, the article doesn't postulate an increase in gun deaths, just that modded guns are likely being used in crimes.
Who cares what the military does? These aren't military users, and they're using automatic fire to spray bullets in gang turf wars or whatever. They're not known for taking the time to aim, and are just fine with taking out little kids or bystanders.
Overall, I have no idea what you're trying to prove except "Look over there!!" and your points ramble all over the place.
Fact is that if more bullets fly probability says more people are gonna get hit. Maybe not today, but tomorrow.
So again, not sure what you sound like you're tying to minimize or dismiss. Full auto isn't a problem? I can assure you that you'd feel differently if you were downrange in a shopping mall and someone decided to fire one up.
The conclusion is that mass shooting deaths would actually go down if we just let people use full auto. It's a counterintuitive result, but it's all there.
/s? Because if not that’s the biggest line of horseshit I’ve ever heard in my life. What do you plan on doing, allowing only Imperial Stormtroopers access to guns? SMH…don’t bother replying.