Assertion: gun's ban | /r/HasAspect | no impact
Facets:
value: on lowering crime
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: on overall gun deaths
type: OTHER
value: on mass shootings
type: LOCATION
Source sentences:
text: The congressionally-mandated study of the federal “assault weapon ban” of 1994-2004 found that the ban had no impact on crime, in part because “the banned guns were never used in more than a modest fraction of gun murders.
text: The study found no conclusive evidence that such bans have an effect on mass shootings or violent crime.
text: The ban on high-capacity magazines within the federal assault weapons ban also had an impact:
text: After the paper was published, Hemenway told us last year, “I doubt that banning AR-15 type weapons has much effect on overall gun deaths since these type of guns are not often used in suicides, homicide or for accidents.
text: Wayne LaPierre, chief executive officer of the National Rifle Association, told a Senate committee that the “ban had no impact on lowering crime.
text: Testifying before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Jan. 30, LaPierre said of the 1994 ban that “independent studies, including one from the Clinton Justice Department, proved that ban had no impact on lowering crime.