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So reducing the number of guns in private hands by 20% reduced the number of mass shootings by 100%? Hmmm.

• lbarrow 14y ago
  This is entirely plausible. Mass shootings aren't carried out by a random sampling of gun owners -- they're carried out by exactly the people who would be prohibited from owning guns if we tightened the laws around gun ownership a bit. The best example of this is Seung-Hui Cho, aka the Virginia Tech shooter, who was able to buy handguns completely legally despite being involuntarily detained at a mental hospital less than two years beforehand. He then went on to kill 32 people.
  • sliverstorm 14y ago
    You're inferring that mass shootings are carried out exclusively by the sort of person who would sell the government his weapon under a buy-back program. (Otherwise there still would have been shootings, even if fewer, with guns bought before the new regulations on sales) Just how realistic do you think that is?
• CamperBob2 14y ago
  And by the same token, the TSA has reduced the number of US airline hijackings by 100%. Post hoc, ergo propter hoc, indeed.