Eight Texas mass shootings may have been prevented by proposed gun control efforts, analysis shows

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Ninety-one Texans killed in eight mass shootings since Columbine might be alive today,...

in Uvalde on May 24 would not have been allowed to legally purchase an extended magazine. Proposals meant to raise the legal age to buy rifles to 21 would also have prevented him from legally purchasing the guns used in the elementary school shooting.

Roses on chairs with the names of those killed during the shooting at First Baptist Church in Sutherland Springs, Texas, which has been transformed into a memorial to honor those who died, Nov. 12, 2017.These measures and others “might have changed the course of at least 35 mass shootings — a third of such episodes in the United States since the massacre at Columbine High School in Colorado,” the Times found. Those 35 mass shootings have killed a combined 446 people.

Uvalde, May 2022: The 18-year-old gunman legally bought a gun and used an extended magazine to kill 21 people and injure 17 atThe Times reported that most of the mass killings may not have been affected by the bills being considered by Congress now because the guns were either illegally purchased or obtained by older adults who used weapons that aren’t the subject of any proposed restrictions.

Law enforcement officials evacuate students and staff from Robb Elementary School after a gunman entered a classroom and began shooting on Tuesday, May 24, 2022.Other proposed measures, including a ban on the sale of military-style assault weapons, “could in theory have had greater impact” because the weapons were used in 30 percent of shootings since a ban on the sale of such weapons expired in 2004, the Times reported.

 

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