A. Particular guns are very dangerous and pose a threat to public safety
B. The United States has had the most mass shootings in the world
C. Reducing access to guns will be effective towards reducing mass shootings
A. Particular guns are very dangerous and pose a threat to public safety
Josh Sugarmann:
1. "High-capacity ammunition magazines are the common thread that runs through most mass shootings: giving attackers the ability to fire numerous bullets without reloading." (10 U.S. Mass Shootings Involving High-Capacity Ammunition Magazines, 2018)
Jon Schuppe:
2. "The AR-15 and its semiautomatic cousins - they shoot one round for each pull of the trigger - incite repulsion among those who see them as excessive, grotesque and having no place on the civilian market." (American's rifle: Why so many people love the AR-15, NBC News, 2017)
Brit McCandless Farmer:
3. "A Pittsburgh synagogue, a Florida high school, a Texas church, a Las Vegas concert, a Connecticut elementary school. These are the locations of some of the deadliest mass shootings in America in recent history, and they all have something in common: The style of weapon used at each horrific scene was the AR-15 semiautomatic rifle." (Learning how to Stop the Bleed, 60 Minutes, CBS News, 2018)
B. The United States has had the most mass shootings in the world
Jen Christensen:
4. "Between 1966 and 2012, there were 90 mass shootings in the United States... The 90 mass shootings are nearly one-third of the 292 such attacks globally for that period. While the United States has 5% of the world's population, it had 31% of all public mass shootings." (Why the US has the most mass shootings, CNN, 2017)
Chris Murphy:
5. "This epidemic of mass slaughter, this scourge of school shooting after school shooting, it only happens here not because of coincidence, not because of bad luck, but as a consequence of our inaction. We are responsible for a level of mass atrocity that happens in this country with zero parallel anywhere else." (Speech to the Senate, We Are Responsible, thedailybeast.com, 2018)
C. Reducing access to guns will be effective towards reducing mass shootings
Violence Policy Center and others, joint statement:
6. "In America today - where virtually anyone with a credit card and a grudge can outfit their own personal army - mass shootings are as predictable as they are tragic." (Over 30 National, State, and Local Gun Violence Prevention Groups Issue Statement on Colorado Mass Shootings, 2012)
C. DiMaggio, J. Avraham, C. Berry, M. Buker, J. Feldman, M. Klein, N. Shah, M. Tandon:
7. "Mass-shooting related homicides in the United States were reduced during the years of the federal assault weapons ban of 1994 to 2004." (Changes in US mass shooting deaths associated with the 1994-2004 federal assault weapons ban: Analysis of open source data, The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 2019)
