Assault Weapons Used in All Mass Shootings of 10 or More Since Columbine Originally published in the Colorado Springs Gazette By Robert Weiner and Brad Star Gun
advocates should quit saying that restoring the assault-weapons ban would mean
nothing. All 15 mass killings of ten or more since Columbine (19 years ago April 20) would have been stopped or diminished under he ban that was
in place for a decade but was sunsetted by the NRA in 2004.
Though the Parkland students have
pushed the envelope in an amazing way, no progress has been made on the front
of assault weapons. In reality, the automatic and semi-automatic weapons used
in each mass shooting killing ten or more over the past two decades would have
been barred or greatly reduced under an assault-weapons ban.
It's simply not true that, as
alleged by gun advocates, an assault-weapons ban would make little to no
difference in the fight against gun violence.
"I'm a supporter of the Second
Amendment and I remain a supporter of the Second Amendment," Sen. Marco Rubio
(R-Fla.) said in February following the mass shooting at Stoneman Douglas High
School in Parkland, Fla. "The Second Amendment is not the cause of this. The
cause of this is individuals who happen to abuse that liberty and that
constitutional right for the purposes of conducting these atrocities."
Rubio is right--the Second Amendment
is not the problem. Qualifications on possession and gun types are perfectly
legal under the Second Amendment.
The most-watched news on modern gun
events revolves around mass killings with the most deaths, the ones committed
with assault weapons. Successfully stopping these headlines with an assault-weapons ban would go a long way in easing the national angst about the terror
of mass shootings in
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