Gun Control & RKBA

1. Addressed in other threads several times. I'll say the GOP (in 1996 via Dickey) and various subsequent efforts has discouraged (not blocked) government research on gun violence.

2. DO gun restrictions save lives? There is no way to absolutely know for sure. We can not scientifically study a minute, month, year or decade in time, adjust the laws and then go back in time and replay it again with the new laws. However, it is absolutely and entirely reasonable to place restrictions on those judged to violent, mentally compromised or suicidal.

If you looking to get entire class of guns banned, collected and, if necessary, forcibly confiscated from the entire country you are dismissed along with a suggestion to try this other group with those ideas: https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forum&id=1135