Folks are running around wanting to ban the AR-15 because of a few black swan events featured that particular platform. Guess what, knives kill more people annu

Folks are running around wanting to ban the AR-15 because of a few black swan events featured that particular platform. Guess what, knives kill more people annually in the US than all rifles do. Handguns kill many times more people than that. No one is clambering to ban the handgun. In the case of the Parkland shooter that sparked this latest round of protest, the murderer had something like 30+ police visits in a year including one in which he attempted to drink gasoline to commit suicide[0]. My ex-girlfriend, after attempting suicide with a kitchen knife, was committed for evaluation and subsequently barred from owning any firearms after a single incident. Florida, and the United States as a whole already have laws on the books for this exact type of situation but the LEOs failed to act, and as a result 17 teenagers needlessly lost their lives. How about, before attempting to ban something, we enforce the good laws we have on the books? Banning the AR-15 would not have prevented this shooting. Enforcing our existing laws would have. [0] - https://qz.com/1214418/the-fbi-broward-county-sheriffs-office-and-scott-petersons-many-failures-to-prevent-the-parkland-school-shooting/ https://qz.com/1214418/the-fbi-broward-county-sheriffs-offic...