Man dies after being shot during confrontation at Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, pond [More]
Wait… I thought “A-rated” Massachusetts had “some of the strongest gun laws in the country and leads the nation in investing in community violence intervention strategies…”
[Via Steve T]
For one second, my thought was that maybe he was a guy who needed shooting. But that sort of thing never happens in victim-disarmament states.
I love how he has been in custody for 24 hrs, is a legal adult, is known to police, and yet we are not allowed to know who he is yet.
Well with “20,000 gun laws on the books” * , with no apparent improvement in the “nationwide gun violence epidemic”, you know, the one that isn’t really “nationwide”, perhaps the logical conclusion is that gun laws aren’t the solution to the problem!
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*I’ve tried to find a concrete number to go with that “20,000 laws” number. I wasn’t able to find anything other than simple repetitions of it. If anyone has a good source, I’d like to see it.
Yeah, me too. It’s been 20,000 for as long as I’ve seen the cite. Kind of like 12M illegal aliens…
A 12/91 Jerome Kassler paper in NEJM makes the following cite for this claim:
Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Justice.
Uniform crime reports for the United States. Washington,
D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1989:11.
The earliest mention of this number I have in my archives is a 1976 paper, “The Great American Gun War,” by B. Bruce-Briggs.
(Sorry — it’s Kessirer, not Kassler.)