You severely underestimate the leathality of a pistol and a couple of 10 round magazines. Go look into the historical record and it will shock you. |
30k are Suicides 8k are justified homocide aka police shooting a criminal who is a threat About 7k are unjustified homocides, 90% are inner city and gang related and done with handguns 200-300 per year are rifles, lower than pool drownings and death from dogs |
See everyone? There's no problem... no problem at all! ... with mass shootings in the US. Republicans United for More Mass Shootings. Join us! |
Lies. 24.2k suicide 19.4k murder 1.5k unintentional, law enforcement, undetermined Data on gun types is only available for 13.6k of the 19.4k murders: 8k handguns 400 rifle 140 shotguns And data not available for 10.8k because police departments didn’t report data. And super high death rate in red states: https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/sosmap/firearm_mortality/firearm.htm |
The worst mass shooting in US history occurred at Wounded Knee when the government came for the guns and then killed 297 people including the majority of women and children. There is no way I am giving up my guns! |
Hill + Billy |
Battle of Gettysburg was worst. Some of your guys were there. |
You cannot possibly compare a three day battle versus Wounded Knee. |
The GOP really is a death cult now, isn't it? |
Looking at that last link - apparently policies and laws in the different states do matter in gun violence as a whole. Imagine what we could accomplish with nationwide restrictions. Oh wait, we don’t have to imagine. We have that data too. Mass shootings went down when we banned semi-automatics in the country as a whole. |
Yes we do. The data is there, but people in the red states would rather die, for some reason. |
They would die just to “own the libs”. |
Semi-automatics have never been banned. You could buy them during the assault weapon ban. Manufacturers just designed around the ban. |
Unfortunately that is not true. Gun crime stayed the same during the 10 year ban. No report out of hundreds has any statistical evidence that an assault weapons ban had any impact on anything other than the flow of guns to Mexico for cartel wars. Maybe the ban was too short, or not broad enough or whatever- but gun crime/violence was not impacted by a limited ban. If you look at trends in the last 3 years, road rage shootings are up the most in California and they have the strictest gun laws going. Those highway shootings are pistols. Gun. Violence is way bigger than rifles painted black. |