Class of gun violence *tripled* after assault-weapon ban sunset, new study finds

[awkx]

A new study by the Brady Center To Prevent Gun Violence found that
incidents of violent crime involving a certain class of formerly-banned
weapons tripled after the Assault Weapons Ban sunset in Sept 2004. Data
was gathered from several large American cities, including New York,
Philadelphia, Chicago, and Dallas. The Brady Center's president Paul
Helmke emphasized that this new study points to the need to enact a new
assault-weapon ban, in order to curb the violence that is plaguing our cities.

Officials at the National Rifle Association did not question the accuracy
of the new study, but they did downplay its significance. An NRA
statistician was quoted as follows: "If there were zero incidents of crime
involving these weapons in the year before the ban was lifted, and there
continued to be zero incidents in the year after the ban sunset, then
technically it *is* true that the crime rate tripled. But zero multiplied
by anything is still zero!"

The category of banned weapons studied in the Brady report consisted of
bayonet mounts, which were banned in the Violent Crime Control And Law
Enforcement Act Of 1994. An NRA spokesman noted that that bayonet charges
are not widely practiced by any criminal gangs, the tactic having fell out
of favor almost two hundred years ago. He went on to criticize the Brady
Center for banning weapons that were merely scary-looking, not actually
dangerous.

This article was published on April 1, 2008.

[KeithPA]

So crime has been decreasing, but different weapons are being used. That makes no sense that a new AWB would then decrease crime then.

[Zef_66]

So crime has been decreasing, but different weapons are being used. That makes no sense that a new AWB would then decrease crime then.

Click the link man...

[Autonomous]

Nice, real nice. A new AWB is what we need. Right.
Jim Brady and crew will be in the burgh at Duquine University middle of next week April 9th. National Symposium on Handgun Violence or some such crap. Saw it in the paper yesterday and almost lost my lunch...
Found the link.
http://www.duq.edu/handgun/
I was kinda tryin to figure out how to stay in town long enough to go to that shit show but I dont think there is any way for me to do that....
-A
Edit
ROTFLMAO....Got me..Wish it was a joke that the brady crew will be in Pittsburgh...

[SteveXD]

ugg... Looks like I better go out and get my AR-15 soon.. I wonder if they would be grandfathered in

EDIT: No I didn't click the link until now... Still wondering though if they would grandfather our guns...

[KeithPA]

Click the link man...

Damn it

I wouldn't be surprised if they came out with a study like that anways

[er2006]

Happy April Fool's Day .

Thanks for the laugh.

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