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What did Biden's anti-gun violence bill do?

Asked by filmfann (52480points) July 22nd, 2024

Sunday night a politician was being interviewed about Biden’s decision to withdraw from the Presidential campaign, and he said a curious thing.
He said that since the 2022 Uvalde shooting, gun violence is down 20%. He attributed this to the anti-gun violence bill Biden passed in 2022. I was taken aback by this claim.
Is it accurate?
What did the bill do?
Why was it effective?

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seawulf575's avatar

Here is the bill you can read it for yourself. It doesn’t look like it did much actually. It targeted young adults (18–21) and poor kids. It created more bureaucracy and messed, once again, with HIPPAA laws.

This is an interesting breakdown. It sounds like he is claiming credit for something that was screwed up but slowly returning to normal. Look at the bar graphs of violence over time. You can see it spiked up in 2020 and even more in 2021. This was an increase of 35% over 2019. You can probably chalk this up to Covid lockdowns. But since Biden pushed those, I guess you have to lay those at his feet too. But regardless, the bill he passed was at the end of June 2022. So from 2022 to the end of 2023, you can see it is only a 7% reduction. There is no data out there for 2024. And the number at the end of 2023 was well above (over 21% higher) the number in 2019.

So in short, no it isn’t true, there is no evidence any decrease was due to the bill, and it is likely a talking point from a politician.

MrGrimm888's avatar

There may have been less mass shootings, with AR styled weapons.

The biggest problem currently, other than the simple abundance of firearms in circulation, are Glock switches.
A piece that modifies factory Glock pistols, to fully automatic.

Since the switches are made with 3D printing, laws won’t do much.

AR platforms, get the press. But handguns, still account for almost all gun violence and/or gun related crimes.

Blackwater_Park's avatar

It really did not do anything. It was just feel-good legislation. “Glock switches” are gimmick like bump stocks. “Full auto” is not something gun people really give a shit about other than full auto is fun at the range. it’s impractical and expensive. Agree AR-15 style rifles get press and they’re not a drop in the bucket compared to handguns in general. It shows how people are influenced to fear those scary black rifles when the firearms a lot of those people own themselves are the most responsible for gun crime.

MrGrimm888's avatar

^Guys looking for a yeetcannon, or switched Glock, are NOT good people. I hate to generalize, but there it is.

It’s not good, to get sprayed by a 15–35 round mag equipped pistol in close quarters. If they aim at your stomach and hold the trigger, even with a class 3+ vest, no bueno.

And there are SO many, that get stolen from trucks/cars. So many, that are essentially being traded around hoods.

America, regardless of the reason, is a dangerous place.

SENSIBLE Gun laws, may have a positive effect. I haven’t seen a sensible one yet.
I don’t know many who don’t support it being a great deal of a bit more difficult to purchase a firearm. At this point, in my state, you just have to be 21, no violent felonies, no current warrants, and it asks at least 3 different ways if you’re Hispanic.

Wouldn’t have helped on Trump’s incident.
But the kid DID alledgedly buy ammo. It would be a big deal to some. But making sure that people who buy bullets are legit, would be another way to potentially help.

Humanity/America, has NOT gotten any smarter lately.

I DO think that you should need more than an ID, and a credit card, to become a potential threat to your community.
In my history I’m law enforcement, I can’t think of situations, it would have been better if more people were armed.

Will that be the next thing? Trump wouldn’t have been hurt, if his rallies allowed open carry?

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