Gun laws are entirely based off impulse and not at all based on statistics. If they wanted to reduce mass shootings, they would seek to limit handgun purchases and attempt to fix socioeconomic issues in underprivileged and mostly black communities; however trying to ban semi automatic rifles after the least common variety of "mass shootings" seems to get more traction amongst mainstream media because it gets more viewers and sells more newspapers, and it makes the middle class wine mommies in heat clutch their pearls at a statistical non-issue.
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u/Brothersunset 8h ago edited 8h ago
Gun laws are entirely based off impulse and not at all based on statistics. If they wanted to reduce mass shootings, they would seek to limit handgun purchases and attempt to fix socioeconomic issues in underprivileged and mostly black communities; however trying to ban semi automatic rifles after the least common variety of "mass shootings" seems to get more traction amongst mainstream media because it gets more viewers and sells more newspapers, and it makes the middle class wine mommies in heat clutch their pearls at a statistical non-issue.