Could any law prevent the next Monterey Park mass shooting?

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    2% Center

  • Reliability

    60% ReliableFair

  • Policy Leaning

    80% Very Conservative

  • Politician Portrayal

    -57% Negative

Bias Score Analysis

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

48% : States with the highest gun mortality rates, including Mississippi ( 28.6 deaths per 100,000 people), Louisiana (26.3 deaths) and Wyoming (25.9 deaths), all grade out as having the nation's most lax gun laws, according to the Giffords Law Center, an organization that favors gun legislation.
46% : "It's because of the kinds of guns we have available in this country," said Christian Heyne, vice president of policy and programs for the Brady Campaign, a group that works to pass gun laws aimed at reducing gun violence.
46% : "But we do know gun laws work.
43% : That contention is backed up by a growing body of research on the effectiveness of gun laws and by federal data about gun-related deaths across the country.
42% : New research suggests mass shootings might be the grim outlier when it comes to the effectiveness of gun laws.
41% :Others believe gun legislation should be aimed at manufacturers, not gun consumers, and that such legislation could at least limit a broad range of gun violence, including mass shootings.
40% : The research, part of Santa Monica-based RAND's Gun Policy in America project, has the non-partisan goal of establishing basic facts about gun violence, legitimate gun use and gun laws.
39% : In their research, Morral and other RAND scientists track thousands of studies looking at how different types of gun laws affect everything from gun violence, such as homicides and suicides, to the price of guns and the legal use of guns, such as self-defense, hunting and sport shooting.

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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