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THREAD: THE RESEARCH IS IN RE MASS SHOOTINGS AND MILITARY GRADE ASSAULT WEAPONS BAN: For mass shootings and school shootings..Military grade assault weapons are the issue....
and that's all...
There's actually loads of research
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https://twitter.com/AlienGamer79/status/1220547857897414657

Start here: 2019 peer reviewed: Changes in US mass shooting deaths associated with the 1994-2004 federal assault weapons ban: Analysis of open-source data
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CONCLUDED: "Mass-shooting fatalities were 70% less likely to occur during the federal ban period (1994-2004)"
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30188421

Moreover, evidence shows that mass shooting deaths surged after it lapsed.
FROM 2018 peer reviewed study: "Criminal Use of Assault Weapons 3/x

and High-Capacity Semiautomatic Firearms: an Updated Examination of Local and National Sources."
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28971…

2018 Criminal Use of Assault Weapons & High-Capacity Semiautomatic Firearms: an Updated Examination of Local and National Sources 4/x

CONCLUDED:
"Assault weapons & other high-capacity semiautomatics appear to be used in a higher share of firearm mass murders (up to 57% in total), though data on this issue are very limited. Trend analyses also indicate that high-capacity semiautomatics have grown 5/x

from 33 to 112% as a share of crime guns since the expiration of the federal ban-a trend that has coincided with recent growth in shootings nationwide" ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28971…

2018 peer reviewed "Large-Capacity Magazine Bans Linked 6/x

With Fewer Mass Shootings, Deaths"
insights.ovid.com/crossref/00005…

2020 peer reviewed: The Effect of Large-Capacity Magazine Bans on High-Fatality Mass Shootings, 1990-2017 CONCLUDED:
"Between 1990 & 2017, there were 69 high-fatality mass shootings. Attacks involving 7/x

LCMs resulted in a 62% higher mean average death toll. The incidence of high-fatality mass shootings in non-LCM ban states was more than double the rate in LCM ban states; the annual number of deaths was more than 3 times higher"
insights.ovid.com/crossref/00000…

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2015 peer reviewed Australia's 1996 gun law reforms: faster falls in firearm deaths, firearm suicides, and a decade without mass shootings. CONCLUDED:
"Australia's 1996 gun law reforms were followed by more than a decade free of fatal mass shootings & accelerated 9/x

declines in firearm deaths, particularly suicides. Total homicide rates followed the same pattern. Removing large numbers of rapid-firing firearms from civilians may be an effective way of reducing mass shootings & firearm homicides & suicides"
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26396…
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2017 peer reviewed: School shootings during 2013-2015 in the USA. CONCLUDED:
"School shootings are less likely in states with
background check policies, per capita mental health expenditures, K-12 education expenditure & with greater per 11/x

percent urban population." ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/27923…

2019 peer reviewed: State gun laws, gun ownership & mass shootings in the US: cross sectional time series. CONCLUDED
"States with more permissive gun laws & greater gun ownership had higher rates of mass shootings & a 12/x

growing divide appears to be emerging between restrictive & permissive states." ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30842…

2016 peer reviewed: Public Mass Shooters & Firearms: A Cross-National Study of 171 Countries. CONCLUDED:
"The United States & other nations with high firearm 13/x

ownership rates may be particularly susceptible to future public mass shootings, even if they are relatively peaceful or mentally healthy according to other national indicators." ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/26822…

Lastly, 2019 peer reviewed: Violent death rates in the US 14/x

compared to those of the other high-income countries, 2015. CONCLUDED: by
"The homicide rate in the US was 7.5 times higher than the homicide rate in the other high-income countries combined, which was largely attributable 15/x

to a firearm homicide rate that was 24.9 times higher. The overall firearm death rate was 11.4 times higher in the US than in other high-income countries. In this dataset, 83.7% of all firearm deaths, 91.6% of women killed by guns, and 96.7% of all children
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aged 0-4 years killed by guns were from the US. Firearm homicide rates were 36 times higher in high-gun US states and 13.5 times higher in low-gun US states than the firearm homicide rate in other high-income countries combined. The firearm homicide rate 17/x

among the US white population was 12 times higher than the firearm homicide rate in other high-income countries. The US firearm death rate increased between 2003 and 2015 and decreased in other high-income countries. The US continues to be an outlier among high-
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income countries with respect to firearm deaths." ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/30817…

NOTE: Those killed in mass shootings, suicides & homicides across t/board are in states w/fewer GUN control measures, are overwhelmingly women & children 19/x END

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