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Not everyone wants to roll over for the NRA.  You may not have any fight in you but many others still do.[/quote]

I’m not here to have any fight for or against. I just like to analyze the math. The NRA is not some random, amorphous thing that just appeared out of thin air. They have millions of members voting with their hundreds of millions of dollars, just like any lobby has the right to do - if they can find that sort of membership base.

To tell the truth, the NRA is totally dysfunctional right now with a bunch of leadership scandals. And yet gun control still polls terribly.  It's a loser political issue.

I have no desire to get on board with a gun control platform when there’s this illogical fixation on rifles as seen in this thread. Look up the FBI homicide rates yourself. On average there are around 300 or 350 homicides by rifle per year, or one a day in a country of ~350m citizens / residents.  That number is (and I’m not joking about this…) around the same death rate as autoerotic asphyxiation, falling out of bed, being killed by a lawnmower, and falling off ladders.

Of course not all the rifles used for homicides are AR pattern ones, so the actual AR homicide rate may be a smaller percent of that one per day.

Let’s say there are 25m AR rifles in the US and you bought them back at an average purchase price of a grand each and you assumed 100% compliance.  That’s a $25b expenditure that could be put toward something that kills many hundreds a day, such as cancer.

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