Posted on 03/24/2021 2:00:38 PM PDT by Enlightened1
Recent shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, and Boulder, Colorado, are driving a renewed push to ban “assault-style” rifles like the AR-15 — but according to FBI data, far more murders are committed with handguns, knives or even hands and feet.
The FBI’s most recent data from 2019 shows that while firearms account for the vast majority of homicides overall — 10,258 — the number of homicides committed using a rifle (364) is much smaller.
Handguns were listed as the primary weapon in 6,368 cases, and shotguns accounted for another 200. There were 45 cases that named “other gun” as the weapon, and 3,281 cases in which the type of firearm was not specified. Assuming the unspecified cases follow the same ratio as the reported firearm types, the number of cases in which a rifle was used would increase by approximately 120 — bringing that total number to 484.
In addition, 600 people were killed in 2019 with what the FBI refers to as “personal weapons,” meaning hands, fists or feet. Knives or other “cutting tools” accounted for another 1,476 homicides — about three times the number killed by rifles.
Despite that data, following nearly every mass shooting in recent history, there has been a push to tighten gun control laws — but, more specifically, to ban the AR-15 or other “assault-style” rifles.
The argument behind that push was that the AR-15, due to its power and versatility, appeared to be the weapon of choice in a number of mass shooting events.
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I asked somebody how he was going to defend himself in this situation (if he couldn’t have a gun).
He owns a gun. Wants them all to be banned. As usual, they make no sense. He deals with hostile people from time-to-time, too.
He bought one of my extra pepper sprays many months ago.
Still, he’s being brainwashed by the liberal media. He doesn’t understand. He’s a foreigner.
Millions of Knifes within reach of people
Isn’t also true that 22 caliber bullets kill more every year than any other caliber. Well not the bullet but you know what I am saying. Guns don’t kill, people do.
Truth, facts, and the civil requirement to tell the truth and not tell lies mean nothing to the left.
They lie all the time to get their desired results.
Saw a group of crazed leftists, at a gun control protest, being interviewed by Charlie Kirk...
He was asking these idiots what an AR is. NONE of them knew.
He asked one guy, who got up in his face, if knives should be outlawed, as well.
The idiot yelled back, “YES!”
🙃
And they’re quiet.
We don’t want to take away your knives, we just want them registered.
Hammers, too.
Yep, that’s going to cut deep!
I lost my knives in a barbecue accident.
Hands, fists, and feet murder more Americans each year than rifles and shotguns combined.
That has been true for decades - with the possible exception of the year the Las Vegas rifle massacre took place.
Pedo Joe said theyll choose “truth” over facts every time. Facts? Pfffftttttt.
Isn’t blunt force trauma one of the most common ways people are murdered?
Probably includes 22 caliber bullet suicides.
Always look for the clever language deception...
"Gun Deaths" does not mean "Gun Murders."
Ban assault knives!
My x wife has a whole drawer of knives in her kitchen. I should turn her in.
Lots of people are murdered with screwdrivers.
its an additional reason burglars carry them.
we gonna ban screwdrivers too?
Only those knives with silencers on them. The knives without them make an awful racket!
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