Is that true? It sounds true, but I don't know. Such a story might be a Pulitzer winner.
Perhaps somebody with the prerequisite skills will do a side by side chart to better illustrate it.
Maybe John Lott of "More Guns, Less Crime" fame will take it up.
Actually, the Luby’s Cafeteria shooting is probably the #1 reason why we got “shall issue” laws passed in Texas. The shooter was able to kill 23 people at his leisure, reloading multiple times with two pistols. Amply illustrating that when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
****But then there is a major mass shooting JUST PRIOR TO EVERY SINGLE GUN CONTROL EFFORT.****
It works like this. A policician prepares an anti-gun bill. A shooting takes place not long afterward. The bill is immediately advanced to LAW.
Worked in 1968, with the 1968 Gun Control Law.
And in California years later after citizens voted down a handgun ban.
Anyone wonder why California had an anti “assault rifle bill” ready when Pat Purdy was released from the nut house SEVEN TIMES, allowed to buy a rifle in Oregon, passed the California requirements to get a handgun, then shot up the school yard in Stockton California, immediately after which California rushed through and passed the weapons ban in their state.