Assault Weapons Ban
The definition of “assault weapons” is amorphous and takes the shape of whatever Democrats want it to. Biden mentions how “assault weapons” were banned in the 90’s, a ban which expired in 2004. He claims that the number of mass shooting tripled after the ban ended.
Even a Politifact article trying to defend Biden’s claim admits how weak its legs are. The ban was too small to have the kind of impact that he claims. Politifact even admits that there is only correlation and that it’s a weak correlation at best.
From the article itself:
“Gun violence researcher Andrew Morral at RAND Corporation, a consulting nonprofit research group, said he and his colleagues don’t see strong evidence that the ban drove down deaths.
On the other hand, “we also don’t believe there is strong evidence that they were not the cause of any such reductions,” Morral said.”
Once they clearly define what “assault weapons” are and obtain a basic education of Second Amendment history, we can talk again.
