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All rifles combined -- including "assault rifles" -- are involved in fewer murders than knives. Also involved in fewer murders than hands/fists. This is true ev
by jeffdavis 6y ago
All rifles combined -- including "assault rifles" -- are involved in fewer murders than knives. Also involved in fewer murders than hands/fists. This is true even in states where laws for obtaining them are very lax:
https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-2018/tables/table-20 https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2018/crime-in-the-u.s.-...
- Gibbon1 6y agoThat's my point. For all the demonization of rifles and assault rifles, handguns are the bulk of the problem.
- RcouF1uZ4gsC 6y agoBut I think handguns would be even harder politically to ban.
- Gibbon1 6y agoBig problem is the Supreme Court said states can't ban handguns. Which is sort of insane because they allow states to ban 'assault weapons' and sawed off shotguns.