According to FBI and CDC statistics, mass shootings with AR-15s in the United States cause less than 100 deaths per year. The total number killed with all rifles is just over 300. The proposed solution? Ban AR-15s and the magazine's. Don't let anyone have them. Problem solved, right?
FBI statistics show more people are beaten to death every year than are shot with rifles of any kind, around 1000.
An average of 10,500 people die every year in the United States from alcohol related traffic accidents and 43,000 total, including alcohol related, die in traffic accidents. What do we do about such "mass killing?" We take away the drunk driver's ability to drive by taking his/her operator's license and often putting them in prison. We sometimes charge the guilty party in a fatal accident even if they were not drinking. Know what we don't do? We don't ban the type of vehicle they were driving and prevent law-abiding citizens from owning that vehicle.
Why not? Motor vehicles are far more deadly than guns. They kill over 100 times the number of people killed by AR-15s every year. And anyone 18 or over can buy one of these dangerous weapons without parental consent or a background check. Yet no one is condemning vehicles. Why? "It's because the person driving is responsible, not the vehicle." Well, duh.
Banning AR-15s and magazines will not prevent shootings, single or mass. There are enough guns, legal and illegal, that a person bent on committing a heinous gun crime will find a way to acquire his/her gun of choice. The Sandy Hook shooter killed his mother and stole her guns. Where there is a will there is always a way.
Democrats, and now some Republicans, are pushing "sensible gun control." But that sensible gun control includes banning certain weapons and magazines. And now Biden is dishonestly demonizing 9mm ammunition, telling everyone it's a "high caliber round," which is simply untrue. The only reason he would say this is to plant the idea that 9mm ammunition should be banned. And he has to lie about it because 9mm handguns are the most popular guns in the country and are used to kill up to 60 percent of victims killed by firearms. (FBI) That is not "sensible gun control."
Contrary to the left-wing narrative that gun violence can be directly blamed on guns and/or Republicans, easy excuses that allow leftists to ignore the true causes of said violence, there are actually only two real reasons it occurs. Those reasons are 1) evil and 2) mental illness. People of all political persuasion and people who join hate groups have one or both of those afflictions if they decide to murder for their beliefs. Anyone who commits mass murder, whether the victims are adults, children, or a combination of both, are at the very least mentally ill. People who murder children are evil as well.
Here's the bottom line. A gun and/or a motor vehicle are no danger to anyone until they are operated by the wrong human hands. That's just fact. If you scream about AR-15s killing 100 people a year and blame the gun, but blame the drunk driver rather than the vehicle for 10,500 traffic deaths per year, you are a hypocrite of the worst kind.
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