This is correct, no matter how many downvotes you receive. Facts are facts.
Homicde of any kind, including suicides, is not even in the top 10 most common causes of death in the USA. Homicides with a gun are farther down the list than homicides in general. Suicides with a gun are more common than murders. Mass shootings are not even a blip on the “most common” stats about death.
When a mass shooting happens, all of the anti-gun people rush to say we should ban “assault weapons” which they define as scary looking rifles. Rifles overall only account for 3% of gun deaths in the USA.
I’m a veteran so I know guns and I look forward to additional common sense checks and maybe licenses for owning a firearm. A lot of the things that have been proposed and shot down have been very good ideas. But the fact that they keep using the phrase “assault weapons” is ruining their argument. They are non-gun people talking about guns incorrectly. It’s like when Congress had to question Facebook and asked why their Gmail wasn’t working correctly. If they are going to ban fast shooting high powered weapons, they should be specific. “Assault weapons” are not a thing.
And I’m going to continue my rant… Let’s say you are very pro getting assault weapons off the street and it passes. The criminal can just use an equivalent rifle designed for hunting. Getting " assault weapons" banned will literally not stop anything because they are using the wrong words in order to fear monger.
This is correct, no matter how many downvotes you receive. Facts are facts.
Homicde of any kind, including suicides, is not even in the top 10 most common causes of death in the USA. Homicides with a gun are farther down the list than homicides in general. Suicides with a gun are more common than murders. Mass shootings are not even a blip on the “most common” stats about death.
When a mass shooting happens, all of the anti-gun people rush to say we should ban “assault weapons” which they define as scary looking rifles. Rifles overall only account for 3% of gun deaths in the USA.
I’m a veteran so I know guns and I look forward to additional common sense checks and maybe licenses for owning a firearm. A lot of the things that have been proposed and shot down have been very good ideas. But the fact that they keep using the phrase “assault weapons” is ruining their argument. They are non-gun people talking about guns incorrectly. It’s like when Congress had to question Facebook and asked why their Gmail wasn’t working correctly. If they are going to ban fast shooting high powered weapons, they should be specific. “Assault weapons” are not a thing.
And I’m going to continue my rant… Let’s say you are very pro getting assault weapons off the street and it passes. The criminal can just use an equivalent rifle designed for hunting. Getting " assault weapons" banned will literally not stop anything because they are using the wrong words in order to fear monger.
Yep, there’s idiots on both sides of every fence that got to their opinions through circumstance rather than cognizance.