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Perhaps the most well-known recent example of that idea came from Wayne LaPierre, executive director of the National Rifle Association, in the wake of the December 2012 mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

Bad example. What did Sandy Hook have to do with RTC? The only person carrying at Sandy Hook was Adam Lanza.

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And from a data analysis point of view that particular event is hard to analyze, since the FBI homicide records, which many studies rely on, don’t show any homicides in Newtown Connecticut at the time. No doubt the murders happened, but the FBI data is not as accurate as one would hope it would be.