Owen Sparks
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FBI Crime Stats: You are more likely to be killed by hands and feet than by a shotgun or rifle. ANY shotgun or rifle, not just the smaller subset of 'assault weapons' which are used on only one and a half percent of all gun crimes.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/27/f...eet-than-by-a-shotgun-or-rifle/#ixzz2DTxdCSt4
Evidently the people in government who want to ban 'assault weapons' do so for reasons that have nothing to do with crime. For example, In 2011 there were 356 shotgun murders and 323 rifle murders for a total of 679 long gun murders. Again, only a relitivly small fraction of these murders were committed with long guns that fit the governments definition of an assault weapon.
During the same time period there were 727 murders committed with personal weapons which are defined as hands, fists, feet etc. and over twice as many people were murdered with knives or other edged weapons for a total of 1,964 people cut or stabbed to death.
Dispite what you might see in the movies, the number of people who died from being poisoned never exceeded 10 per year.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/27/f...eet-than-by-a-shotgun-or-rifle/#ixzz2DU3HBxYv
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/27/f...eet-than-by-a-shotgun-or-rifle/#ixzz2DU13SVnB
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/27/f...eet-than-by-a-shotgun-or-rifle/#ixzz2DTxdCSt4
Evidently the people in government who want to ban 'assault weapons' do so for reasons that have nothing to do with crime. For example, In 2011 there were 356 shotgun murders and 323 rifle murders for a total of 679 long gun murders. Again, only a relitivly small fraction of these murders were committed with long guns that fit the governments definition of an assault weapon.
During the same time period there were 727 murders committed with personal weapons which are defined as hands, fists, feet etc. and over twice as many people were murdered with knives or other edged weapons for a total of 1,964 people cut or stabbed to death.
Dispite what you might see in the movies, the number of people who died from being poisoned never exceeded 10 per year.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/27/f...eet-than-by-a-shotgun-or-rifle/#ixzz2DU3HBxYv
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/27/f...eet-than-by-a-shotgun-or-rifle/#ixzz2DU13SVnB