Texas Mass Shootings Up 62.5 Percent Since Permitless Carry Bill

[badger2]

Multiple Victims Reported in Texas Mall Mass Shooting

“He pretty much was walking down the sidewalk and … was just shooting his gun everywhere for the most part.”

thedailybeast.com

 

[bigrebnc1775]

Another Republican FAIL.

Texas Mass Shootings Up 62.5 Percent Since Permitless Carry Bill​

Just over a year ago, Governor Greg Abbott signed a law making it legal for anyone in Texas over the age of 21 to openly carry a gun in public without a permit or license. Since then, the number of mass shootings has risen 62.5 percent.

From June 13, 2020, to June 13, 2021, when Abbott signed the permitless carry law, Texas had 40 mass shootings. In that same time period from 2021 to 2022, the number of mass shootings rose to 65. The numbers were compiled using the databases from the Stanford University MSA Data Project, the Mass Shooting Tracker, Vox’s Gun Violence Archives, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, the FBI, and the Congressional Research Service. All incidences met at least two definitions of a mass shooting.

The math is even more damning when taking the number of victims into account. In the one-year period before the bill was signed, 187 people were killed or injured in mass shootings in Texas. In the one-year-after period, it was 375 people killed or injured, a 100 percent increase. Even if the 40 people killed or injured in the Robb Elementary School Massacre are excluded, the increase is 79 percent, an enormous jump in bloodshed.

When the bill was signed, Texas Democrats predicted that the law would likely increase gun violence.

“The permitless carry bill will cause more violence and loss,” U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-El Paso) said in a statement at the time. “Despite overwhelming support for common-sense gun violence prevention legislation like universal background checks, Texas Republicans, led by a cowardly governor, are more interested in groveling for the gun lobby’s attention than they are in preventing gun violence and honoring victims and survivors in El Paso and across Texas.”

That grim prediction has come true.

These numbers do not even take into account shootings of less than four people. Totals for all gun violence tend to lag behind mass shootings as they get less press coverage, and the numbers from last year are still not widely available from sources yet, let alone for 2022 so far. ABC 13 recently stated that since the bill had been passed, shooting deaths in the state were up 5 percent, with injuries being up 3 percent.

You stupid fuck a piece of paper does not stop someone from killing a person.

 

[badger2]

Post #81 is booby-trapped.

 

[candycorn]

Another Republican FAIL.

Texas Mass Shootings Up 62.5 Percent Since Permitless Carry Bill​

Just over a year ago, Governor Greg Abbott signed a law making it legal for anyone in Texas over the age of 21 to openly carry a gun in public without a permit or license. Since then, the number of mass shootings has risen 62.5 percent.

From June 13, 2020, to June 13, 2021, when Abbott signed the permitless carry law, Texas had 40 mass shootings. In that same time period from 2021 to 2022, the number of mass shootings rose to 65. The numbers were compiled using the databases from the Stanford University MSA Data Project, the Mass Shooting Tracker, Vox’s Gun Violence Archives, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, the FBI, and the Congressional Research Service. All incidences met at least two definitions of a mass shooting.

The math is even more damning when taking the number of victims into account. In the one-year period before the bill was signed, 187 people were killed or injured in mass shootings in Texas. In the one-year-after period, it was 375 people killed or injured, a 100 percent increase. Even if the 40 people killed or injured in the Robb Elementary School Massacre are excluded, the increase is 79 percent, an enormous jump in bloodshed.

When the bill was signed, Texas Democrats predicted that the law would likely increase gun violence.

“The permitless carry bill will cause more violence and loss,” U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-El Paso) said in a statement at the time. “Despite overwhelming support for common-sense gun violence prevention legislation like universal background checks, Texas Republicans, led by a cowardly governor, are more interested in groveling for the gun lobby’s attention than they are in preventing gun violence and honoring victims and survivors in El Paso and across Texas.”

That grim prediction has come true.

These numbers do not even take into account shootings of less than four people. Totals for all gun violence tend to lag behind mass shootings as they get less press coverage, and the numbers from last year are still not widely available from sources yet, let alone for 2022 so far. ABC 13 recently stated that since the bill had been passed, shooting deaths in the state were up 5 percent, with injuries being up 3 percent.

 

[basquebromance]

 

[mak2]

correlation v causation. Gun permits or not is not the cause of this.

 

[martybegan]

Another Republican FAIL.

Texas Mass Shootings Up 62.5 Percent Since Permitless Carry Bill​

Just over a year ago, Governor Greg Abbott signed a law making it legal for anyone in Texas over the age of 21 to openly carry a gun in public without a permit or license. Since then, the number of mass shootings has risen 62.5 percent.

From June 13, 2020, to June 13, 2021, when Abbott signed the permitless carry law, Texas had 40 mass shootings. In that same time period from 2021 to 2022, the number of mass shootings rose to 65. The numbers were compiled using the databases from the Stanford University MSA Data Project, the Mass Shooting Tracker, Vox’s Gun Violence Archives, Mother Jones, The Washington Post, the FBI, and the Congressional Research Service. All incidences met at least two definitions of a mass shooting.

The math is even more damning when taking the number of victims into account. In the one-year period before the bill was signed, 187 people were killed or injured in mass shootings in Texas. In the one-year-after period, it was 375 people killed or injured, a 100 percent increase. Even if the 40 people killed or injured in the Robb Elementary School Massacre are excluded, the increase is 79 percent, an enormous jump in bloodshed.

When the bill was signed, Texas Democrats predicted that the law would likely increase gun violence.

“The permitless carry bill will cause more violence and loss,” U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar (D-El Paso) said in a statement at the time. “Despite overwhelming support for common-sense gun violence prevention legislation like universal background checks, Texas Republicans, led by a cowardly governor, are more interested in groveling for the gun lobby’s attention than they are in preventing gun violence and honoring victims and survivors in El Paso and across Texas.”

That grim prediction has come true.

These numbers do not even take into account shootings of less than four people. Totals for all gun violence tend to lag behind mass shootings as they get less press coverage, and the numbers from last year are still not widely available from sources yet, let alone for 2022 so far. ABC 13 recently stated that since the bill had been passed, shooting deaths in the state were up 5 percent, with injuries being up 3 percent.

Did permit less carry impact in any way the buying of long rifles?

 

[basquebromance]

 

[M14 Shooter]

Texas Mass Shootings Up 62.5 Percent Since Permitless Carry Bill​

As I am sure C_Clayton_Jones was quick to tell you:
Your topic fails as a post hoc fallacy.

Next.

 

[M14 Shooter]

What’s also true is that conservatives refuse to address the problem of gun crime and violence – instead deflecting with lies about guns being ‘banned’ and ‘confiscated.’

Oh... There you are...

Why haven't you pointed out this topic fails as a post hoc fallacy?

 

[Rogue AI]

Which you don't. Fucking fallacy.

If you were concerned at home, you would have a steel front door, dogs, razor wire, CCTV plus more. So don't spout this defence fallacy to the adults.

You Limeys haven't been the adults since we kicked your asses back across the Atlantic. Home defense weapons are simply tools, there is no need to turn one's home into a fortress. That just screams cowardice louder than Frogs dropping their rifles at Kraut whispers. You Eurotrash folks are sad creatures.

 

[Captain Caveman]

You Limeys haven't been the adults since we kicked your asses back across the Atlantic. Home defense weapons are simply tools, there is no need to turn one's home into a fortress. That just screams cowardice louder than Frogs dropping their rifles at Kraut whispers. You Eurotrash folks are sad creatures.

You septic Tanks needed the French to fight your war, to save your ass. You've never won a war without allies/help. Home defense is a fallacy.

 

[Rogue AI]

You septic Tanks needed the French to fight your war, to save your ass. You've never won a war without allies/help. Home defense is a fallacy.

Hardly, the Frogs offered aid only because it was mutually beneficial for them to do so. No more so than Lend Lease we offered you folks. Incidentally you lot mucked that all up.

Home defense is quite real for those not too cowardly to trust in themselves over waiting for some unarmed Bobby to save them.

 

[marvin martian]

Ever since biden was elected crime has gone through the roof all over the country.

Yup, and that is not an accident.