Do something and do it now :'( - liberals
Meanwhile France has 1/5th our population and had more mass shootings and killings than us in 2015 while having the most strict gun laws on the planet.
What you guys fail to understand about gun control is it requires law abiding citizens. INB4 Australia BS is brought up and debunked for the 10000th time
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-m...oesch-cherry-picks-terrorism-deaths-france-a/
With even some Republicans talking about an assault rifle ban, the National Rifle Association has been quick to reject the idea that it might help.
On ABC News’
This Week, host George Stephanopoulos suggested that nations with stricter limits see fewer mass shootings. NRA spokeswoman Dana Loesch challenged that before Stephanopoulos even fully asked his question. Here’s their
Feb. 25 exchange:
Stephanopoulos: "We are the only country that has wide access to these kind of weapons and no one else has the frequency or the intensity of these kind of mass shootings…"
Loesch: "That’s actually not true."
Stephanopoulos: "...mass shooting that we do."
Loesch: "That’s actually not true."
Stephanopoulos: "That is."
Loesch: "France had a higher casualty rate in one year than the entire two administrations of Barack Obama. And they’re a fifth of our population."
Really? France saw more casualties in a single year than America saw in eight?
The NRA press office told us Loesch drew from an analysis by the
Crime Prevention Research Center, a group that does research in support of policies favored by gun rights advocates. While Loesch didn’t specify the year, that article compared deaths and injuries in "mass public shootings" in France in 2015 with casualties from similar events in the United States between 2009 and 2016.
In 2015, France had 150 deaths and 382 injured, for a total of 532.
On the American side, between 2009 and 2016, there were 264 deaths, 263 injured for a total of 527.
As many will remember, 2015 was a horrific year of terrorist attacks in France. In January, two men who claim allegiance to Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula opened fire in the offices of the satirical magazine
Charlie Hebdo. The death toll rose even higherwith a series of attacks on Nov. 13 by a well-organized Islamic State cell in and around the Bataclan Theater in Paris. A total of 132 people died.
But 2015 was an aberration for France.
The
Global Terrorism Database at the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism shows that between 2009 and 2014, attacks with guns killed eight people. In 2016, there was one victim. Our French fact-checking colleagues at
Liberation found a steady rate of more conventional firearm deaths over the years. (The policy focus is on firearms but it’s important to add that a truck attack killed 86 people celebrating Bastille Day in Nice in 2016.)
