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US: More Than a Dozen Mass Shootings Over Weekend

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US: More Than a Dozen Mass Shootings Over Weekend
Above: Police respond to a September 2020 shooting in Rochester, New York. Image credit: Joshua Rashaad McFadden/Stringer/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The Spin

Democrats use every shooting for political purposes when it comes to tightening gun restrictions. But most of their proposed new gun laws wouldn't do anything to stop these tragedies; they'd just limit law-abiding citizens' Second Amendment rights, which should never be infringed. They conveniently ignore the amount of times citizens need firearms for self-defense.

Republicans at every turn continue to block legislation that would make Americans safer. At minimum Democrats want to restore the assault weapons ban that effectively reduced these tragedies before Republicans allowed the law to expire. There's no such thing as an uninfringed right to possess firearms, as proven by the numerous laws Americans accept in the name of public safety.

Metaculus Prediction

There's a 50% chance that there will be 1.41 small firearms per capita in the US in 2029, according to the Metaculus prediction community.


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