Quote Originally Posted by Fisherking View Post
You may find this enlightening: http://thefifthcolumnnews.com/2015/0...t-gun-control/

but most of you will ignore it anyway.
I read it, I also read the comments where this point came up from a member named jamie:

Interesting, but what I’d really like to know is not the effect of gun bans on murder, but it’s effect on mass murders…shootings like the recent one in Oregon. Really, the number of victims of mass shootings is a very small percentage of the total number of people murdered each year. So yes, while gun bans may have an insignificant effect on total murders, that’s really not the point. People are going to murder people – stopping that would be an impossible task. more But that’s not the same as cutting back on the frequency of mass murder/shootings.

I think this article is a red herring – a smokescreen – obscuring the truth by presenting statistics that are not relevant to the issue.