The Supreme Court on Monday turned away an appeal by a group of gun rights advocates seeking to overturn Maryland’s ban on assault-style rifles and high-capacity magazines under the Second Amendment.
The decision, a major win for gun safety advocates, leaves in place a ruling by the Fourth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals which ruled that the state may constitutionally prohibit sale and possession of the weapons.
The state legislation, enacted in 2013 after the Sandy Hook elementary school shooting, specifically targets the AR-15 – the most popular rifle in America with 20-30 million in circulation. They are legal in 41 of the 50 states.
Are you asking because you want to know, or are you asking to sow doubt that clearly effective laws are effective?
How many assault weapons attacks occur in England every year? How does that compare to the US? Do you think that has anything to do with the fact that assault weapons are illegal in England?
(By the way, you can replace England with almost any other country in the world in that paragraph and it still works.)
Also, if you actually want to know, you should be petitioning your government to make it easier to study gun violence. Right now, it’s very hard to study gun violence, thanks to the lobbying efforts of the NRA.
Yes, I want to know. Defend your argument and cite your sources instead of trying to bullshit me with generalities and assumptions.
Trying pretend that just because some gun control laws are effective means that all of them are effective is a fallacy. If anything, your comment is way more likely to have been in bad faith than mine was.
I provided my sources.
No you haven’t. You’ve provided a Gish gallop of vague and general stuff. An actual source would be research that specifically analyzes the impact of Maryland SB 623 (2013).
What you’re asking for doesn’t exist, wasn’t called for in the law, and is an unreasonable demand.
Similar enough laws have been studied and shown to be effective, as pointed out in the article I provided. Demanding that a specific law be researched regardless of existing research of similar laws is unreasonable.
Again, if you’re actually worried about this kind of research, you should be petitioning the federal government to make it easier to perform scientific research on gun violence.