Activists and lawmakers have called for an assault weapons ban and raising the age to purchase a gun
Calls for gun control have echoed across the nation following a series of devastating mass shootings. Some experts, however, say there’s little to no evidence showing that tightening laws on guns will prevent violent crimes and similar shootings.
“Not really,” Crime Prevention Research Center President John Lott told Fox News Digital when asked if there is empirical evidence showing gun control measures can prevent violent crimes. “There’s been a lot of studies done on things like assault weapons bans, background checks … Even for the assault weapons ban, even the Clinton administration – which signed it into law – paid for research on it. And even their studies couldn’t find any benefits in terms of reducing a type of violent crime or in terms of stopping things like mass public shootings.”
President Biden addressed the nation following the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting last month, which left 19 children and two teachers dead, demanding “commonsense” gun laws and argued the Second Amendment is “not absolute.”
“We need to ban assault weapons and high capacity magazines. And if we can’t ban assault weapons, then we should raise the age to purchase them from 18 to 21; strengthen background checks; enact safe storage and red flag laws; repeal the immunity, that protect gun manufacturers from liability; address the mental health crisis, deepening the trauma of gun violence,” Biden said on June 2.
Why are SOCIALIST / LIBERAL DAs, AGs, PROSECUTERs, FBI not being prosecuted for light to no sentences or lack of prosecution and incarceration? They want to ignore the law and the DOJ, FBI refuses to prosecute FEDERAL law by passing in down to the STATES? These lawyers, DOJ and FBI should be prosecuted with these criminals with maximum prison time with no parole and serve day for day time. ALSO TAKE AWAY THEIR LAW LICENSE SO THEY WILL NEVER PRACTICE LAW AGAIN. That will stop or at least slow down gun crimes