In the early 1950’s anyone could buy multiple military semiautomatic carbines with 20 or 30 round magazines and folding stocks directly from the U.S. Government. Millions were sold to American citizens. Nine millimeter pistols with 15 round magazines were widely available by the 1930’s. Yet school shootings were completely unheard of until the 1970’s and barely breached the public consciousness until 1999, which was fully five years into the Clinton-era ban on “assault weapons”.
Obviously, something has changed over the course of these past 60 years. And one thing that has obviously not changed is the types of guns available to the public at large.
Why then are all of the proposals put forward by the left to prevent school violence centered on banning guns that are so very clearly not the cause of school violence?
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