In his first speech before a joint session of Congress on Wednesday night, President Joe Biden urged the legislature to re-issue a ban on so-called “assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines while arguing that it “worked before.”
Yet, the most widely-sourced data shows that it did not, in fact, work before.
What are the details?
Biden declared gun violence “an epidemic in America” before saying, “In the 1990s, we passed universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines that hold 100 rounds that can be fired in seconds.”
He argued, “Talk to most responsible gun owners, most hunters — they’ll tell you there’s no possible justification for having 100 rounds —100 bullets — in a weapon.”
The ban the president was referring to was the Public Safety and Recreational Firearms Use Protection Act, passed as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement act of 1994 under then-President Bill Clinton.
The law actually banned the “transfer or possession” of ammunition feeding devices that carried more than 10 rounds (not 100), ABC News reported, and the manufacturing of 18 models of specific semiautomatic weapons.
“We need a ban on assault weapons and high-capacity magazines again,” Biden told Congress and the American people on Wednesday. “Don’t tell me it can’t be done. We’ve done it before…and it worked.”
In reaction to Biden’s address, reporter Emily Miller tweeted, “Biden biggest lie of this speech is that the ‘assault weapon ban’ worked. No, the FBI said to let it sunset after ten years because it had no effect on crime.”
The Clinton ban was, indeed, allowed to expire in 2004, and a study from that year using grants from the DOJ found that while gun violence fell by 17% nationwide during the ban — the drop was not linked to the ban.
The analysis explained that hand guns were overwhelmingly the weapon of choice in gun violence in the U.S. both before and after the ban. It stated, “[assault weapons] were used in only a small fraction of gun crimes prior to the ban: about 2% according to most studies and no more than 8%.”
Moreover, the study did note a decrease in crimes involving “assault weapons,” but pointed out that criminals appeared to simply use different weapons. “The decline in [assault weapons] use was offset throughout at least the last 1990s by steady or rising use of other guns equipped with [large capacity magazines] in jurisdictions studied,” the authors wrote.
The study added, “We cannot clearly credit the ban with any of the nation’s recent drop in gun violence.”
Obiden why don’t come up with another old idea…enforcing current laws, prosecuting criminals to the fullest extent of the law, and keeping them in prison until their sentence is served. You need to move on past the Feinstein way of thinking. Being hard on crime, not the law abiding citizen, is the answer
FACTS: ( I can’t provide a link, but it starts with “gunsource”
Mass Shooting Statistics Explored
There have been a total of 816 deaths in mass killings… since 1982.
In the gun control mecca, Chicago, they had 943 murders in 1992 alone! In one year!
Nearly as many people died in boating accidents last year as have died from all mass killings in over 35 years! In one year, 2014, there were an incredible 4,884 pedestrians killed in the U.S.. What the what? Almost 7 times as many pedestrians are killed, in one year, as ALL mass shootings in almost 4 decades?
In 2016 there were 71 mass shooting deaths, 49 of which came at the hands of Islamic extremist Omar Mateen during the Orlando nightclub shooting. The average has been about 8.5 deaths per year from mass killing. That’s the truth of mass shooting statistics that you won’t hear from the progressive propaganda machine.
In 2016 alone 14,800 people died from prescription opioid overdoses. Every day 6 people die from alcohol poisoning. In 2013 there were 678,932 victims of child abuse and neglect reported to Child Protective Services.
In 1999 the Institute of Medicine published a report titled “To Err is Human: Building A Safer Health System“, and in it they reveal that at least 44,000 people, but maybe as high as 98,000, die every year due to medical errors in hospitals, probably many more if you include clinics and offices.
Types of deaths in 2014 by cause:
Drug Induced – 49,714
Alcohol Induced – 30,722
Accidental Poisoning – 42,032
Accidental Falls – 33,018
Accidental Pedestrian Deaths – 6,258
Death by Malnutrition – 3,933
Drowning – 3406
Murdered with knives – 1,567
Killed while bicycling – 902
Murdered with hands, fists or feet – 660
Boating Accident – 610 (U.S. Coast Guard)
Unintentional Machinery Deaths – 605
Murdered with blunt objects (clubs, hammers, etc…) 435
During Robbery – 565
Unintentional Cuts – 109
Murdered by Asphyxiation – 96
Murdered by Strangulation – 89
During Burglary – 77
Getting a Salmonella Infection – 45
Death by Babysitter – 37
During a Motor Vehicle Theft – 25
During Rape – 23
By Arson – 22
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In a Mass Shooting – 18
Truth and facts will never the lying leftist liberal machine. 5 things they are terrified of are God, guns, truth, facts and anyone who uses the latter 2 to prove them wrong. They are not only terrified of them, but, despise the last one
Amen. Since our country is now controlled by the communists that despise the legal ownership of firearms, our only answer is to buy more guns and ammunition to put more fear in their ranks.
I think we need to control those boats! Nobody should be able to own anything more than a manually powered canoe or a motorized dingy no more than six feet long and no more than a 3 horse power motor. This will stop boating violence!
No country should be allowed more than 3 democratic communist. This would reduce inbreeding, gun violence, stupidity, and lawless behavior. Let’s start the process today.
no. . .No. . .NO! There were no motorized boats in 1776, so by liberal il-logic the U.S. needs to ban anything with a motor of any size from the water.
It’s all Houdini-like distraction. Why doesn’t Congress make him explain his son’s illegal firearms habits, international financial ties, his own extortion tactics using taxpayer dollars to get another country to fire their attorney and, oh yes, the non-crisis border crisis?
When he said “it worked” he means from a political point of view. He and the Democrats could care less about mass shootings. They are concerned about getting those evil (effective) firearms out of the hands of racist and white supremacists (you know, Trump supporters) like you.
Enjoy your eternity in hell you DUNCE.
If people keep pointing out that hand guns are the evil instrument of death, these Commicrats will come for the handguns. We have a problem that people are breaking down. Many from mental illness, others from domestic situations, job losses, and the pandemic. They get so mad, they go out and cause deadly confrontations. The answer isn’t to confiscate weapons, the answer is to get treatment for these people before they loose it.
“If gun laws in fact worked, the sponsors of this type of legislation should have no difficulty drawing upon long lists of examples of criminal acts reduced by such legislation. That they cannot do so after a century and a half of trying – that they must sweep under the rug the southern attempts at gun control in the 1870-1910 period, the northeastern attempts in the 1920-1939 period, the attempts at both Federal and State levels in 1965-1976 – establishes the repeated, complete and inevitable failure of gun laws to control serious crime.”—Orrin Hatch
Potato Joe is a dottering, senile old man. He no doubt forgot what he said 5 minutes after he said it. An embarrassment.
This bumbling old fool cannot remember anything right. The ban was a flop and allowed to die. The AR rifles are not assault weapons. He lies out the kazoo. Dems have brain clutch and keep holding out for the same BS they have promised the Hollywood trash for years. Biden has crapped up America with his executive actions and most of them are illegal and he does it because it takes so long for the courts to address them before removal.
The Second Amendment to the Constitution stipulates that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Note specifically that the Constitution is not granting a right, but is in fact stating that the government does not “give” the right (which if they did could be taken away), but rather that the government does not have the authority to take that obvious right away. In other words, the government does not give you the right to own a gun, it is a right they are forbidden to take away. It is interesting to note that history shows us the governments that forbid firearm ownership are the oppressive tyrannical governments whose goal is to subjugate the population by first disarming them. Beware of any government that desires to disarm their population, the reasons are tyrannical in purpose. Disarm the people and they cannot fight back. Our Constitution forbids that possibility.
Hitler disarmed Germany and we know what happened there. The biggest thing we need to ban (disarm) is the Democratic Party and the clown who thinks he’s in charge. Then and only then will this country get back on it’s feet again.
Wonder who is going to burn after they take away our guns?
It’s hard to put a population under your control when they are armed and willing to shoot you for doing so. That’s the democrat party’s dilemma. The guns they refer to as “assault weapons” are not weapons of war as they claim. However they need us disarmed so they can enact all their disgusting tyrannical items and put us under total control. I think most Americans do not want that and will not give up their guns just because the democrat party wants them. Here’s to the big middle finger to Joke Biden and his pals in the democrat party.
Aw…C’Mon Man! Everyone knows you only need ONE shotgun shell to fire in the air, and all criminal activity around you will magically cease.
Personally I like my .45 ACP with half a dozen 8 round magazines loaded with hollow-point PDA rounds. But I guess I am not as optimistic as Slo-jo and Kamel-ho!