The Illinois Supreme Court on Friday upheld the state’s assault-style weapons ban in a 4-3 ruling after months of legal challenges sought to dismantle the law.
Well this is stupid. Three-quarters of homicides are done with handguns. That’s not even counting suicides, which cause even more deaths than murders do. If they wanted to reduce gun violence, they’d ban handguns. I get that people are scared, but this will not fix the problem.
The “assault style” weapons part of the law won’t really do much, but the magazine size part does. In other states with similar magazine size regulations, there have been quantifiable reductions in gun deaths.
Well that’s good to hear, they should have just done that then. Just googled it, looks like 60% reductions for mass shootings. That’s good, but I don’t know that it will move the meter much overall when so few deaths are from mass shootings in the first place.
Well this is stupid. Three-quarters of homicides are done with handguns. That’s not even counting suicides, which cause even more deaths than murders do. If they wanted to reduce gun violence, they’d ban handguns. I get that people are scared, but this will not fix the problem.
The “assault style” weapons part of the law won’t really do much, but the magazine size part does. In other states with similar magazine size regulations, there have been quantifiable reductions in gun deaths.
Well that’s good to hear, they should have just done that then. Just googled it, looks like 60% reductions for mass shootings. That’s good, but I don’t know that it will move the meter much overall when so few deaths are from mass shootings in the first place.