The left’s relentless push to ban commonly-owned semiautomatic rifles under the guise of safety overlooks the fact that Americans face numerous things that cause exponentially more death than rifles on a daily basis.
Consider Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics from 2017, the most recent year of complete data. The total number of firearm-related deaths was 39,773. Roughly two-thirds of that figure, 23,854, were firearm-related suicides, with the remaining 15,919 being a combination of the approximately 500 accidental gun deaths that occur annually coupled with just over 15,000 firearm-related homicides.
If we break down the firearm-related homicides via FBI crime statistics, we see that handguns were far and away the common firearm for murder. The FBI reported 7,032 murders with a handgun verses 403 murders with a rifle, and 264 with a shotgun, in cases where the firearm was identifiable.
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Unless intentional or the driver has been drinking, the driver will never see the inside of jail for killing a pedestrian.
ReplyDeleteI just about got creamed the other day by a monster pickup truck hauling a trailer in a parking lot as I was pushing a cart.
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ReplyDeleteWhich only makes the case that we should outlaw streets and bicycles.
ReplyDeleteAny other problems you need fixing?
If the idiot Morons really want to talk about kids dying, it is Texting and Driving killing lots more than any school shooting. Time to ban cell phones, and buy back cars!
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