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Current Events » in reply to I see Slate has apparently shifted the "mass shooting" definition back again.

They were talking about you...

Other reports from gun advocates have similarly cherry-picked anecdotal evidence or presented outright fabrications in attempting to make the case that Australia’s more-restrictive laws didn’t work. Those are effectively refuted by findings from peer-reviewed papers, which note that the rate of decrease in gun-related deaths more than doubled following the gun buyback, and that states with the highest buyback rates showed the steepest declines. A 2011 Harvard summary of the research concluded that, at the time the laws were passed in 1996, “it would have been difficult to imagine more compelling future evidence of a beneficial effect.”

You see only what you want to, meanwhile the people that actually LOOKED at the data disagree with you...

I really should just give up, you are not an honest participant in these discussions. You avoid the central points and dismiss any facts presented to you...

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