Gun Legislation

 Gun apologists continuously distort the facts to justify their opposition to reasonable gun safety. The greatest untruth is that banning military-style assault rifles does not help prevent mass shootings. Put aside the self-evident fact that automatic or semi-automatic weapons with large ammo capacity fire rapidly and repeatedly without constant need to reload thus greatly expanding the opportunity to inflict maximum carnage.

The facts are that during the ten years an assault rifle ban was in effect in the United States mass shootings decreased; since the ban was allowed to expire, in 2004, these atrocities have spiked. Since Australia enacted a ban, adopted strict gun control laws and bought back and destroyed assault weapons, that country has had almost no mass shootings.

The gun lobby and its legislative acolytes simply refuse to acknowledge these facts or draw any lessons from them. Instead, it persists in spreading falsehoods behind which it promotes a campaign of more gun sales resulting in more mass casualties.