Washington Post Busts Chris Murphy’s Gun Control Claims

By Tom Knighton

Gun control advocates routinely claim that the laws they favor would have this major impact on gun crime. They brush off any claims or evidence to the contrary, parroting words like “biased” and even dismissing the evidence as lies without ever really delving into the meat of the data. It’s also easy for them to ignore anything we publish at Bearing Arms.

With the current national debate on guns, Rep. Chris Murphy has made a lot of anti-gun claims. Enough that even the Washington Post decided to take a look.

The results were probably not what Murphy would have liked.

The evidence to support Murphy’s claim is thin, at best. A 10-year ban on assault weapons such as AR-15s didn’t do much to reduce gun violence. Many of the studies that show gun control reduces gun deaths include suicides, which distorts the results. And single-state studies may show improvements in gun violence, but the results can’t be readily generalized to other states. (The Fact Checker once documented how proposed gun laws would not have prevented any mass shootings that took place between 2012 and 2015.)

After each mass shooting, politicians argue over gun-control policy, with one side focused …Read the Rest

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