Two recent shootings in Atlanta, Georgia and Boulder, Colorado are fueling team-left’s long desired ban on “assault-style” rifles like the AR-15.
But, according to data from the FBI, far more murders are committed with handguns, knives, or even bare hands.
The most recent data from 2019 shows that although firearms do account for the majority of homicides 10,258 the number of homicides committed using a rifle 364 is much smaller, according to the Daily Caller.
Handguns were listed as the primary weapon in 6,368 cases, while shotguns accounted for an additional 200. 45 cases named “other gun” as the weapon and in 3,281 cases, the type of firearm was not listed.
Assuming the unspecified cases follow the same ratio as the reported firearm types, the number of rifle homicides would increase by approximately 120, bringing the total number from 364 to 484.
Meanwhile, a whopping 600 people were killed with what the FBI calls “personal weapons,” including hands, fists or feet.
Knives, evidently, accounted for 1,476 homicides.
That is three times the amount of homicides committed using a rifle.
Despite the data, democrats have long pushed to tighten gun control laws, specifically banning assault rifles.
While the AR-15 is typically the weapon of choice for highly-publicized “mass shootings,” hence why there are calls to ban them, it is critical to look at the exact definition of the term.
A “mass shooting” is defined as any scenario in which at least four people are killed. This means that numbers can be dramatically skewed by gang-related and drug-related activity.
In looking at the data, by this logic, knives should be banned as well, considering they cause more damage.
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“FBI Data Shows Knives Kill More People Than Rifles”
IT DOESN’T MATTER
To Democrats, Facts, Truth, Reality and History are all irrelevant to a Democrat if they don’t WANT to believe them.
Democrats will just make up their own Facts, Truth, Reality and History to fit what
They WANT to believe or fits into their Con, Deception or Lie.
Facts and reality have NEVER mattered to the left. JUST their agenda.
First it will be the AR15’s banned and then the filth in Washington DC will ban the handguns. Boy, that was hard to figure out.
BUT you just KNOW they will give loopholes for “THEIR OWN armed security” to keep those guns… and won’t do a damn thing, about the hundreds of thousands of guns in the HANDS OF GANGS or felons.
GOT THAT RIGHT… they NEVER confuse the issue with the facts.
PETA will love this, ban knives and peoplle will no longer be able to eat steaks or chops. Always a silver lining!
Go ahead ban metal knives and forks, use plastic ones. Oh ya, plastic knives and forks were already ban by Green Peace Ocean people !
Ask those in London, how well that “knife ban” is working.
The left has no issue with knives. No corrupt government has been corrected by a knife wielding population.
On the day of the Colorado shootings, one angry Muslim killed 10 people and millions of law abiding (non-Muslim) gun owners shot no one.
IJDFM…. IT JUST DOESN’T MATTER
It is NOT about saving lives. It is about Control.
Remember how the corrupt senile puppet president put up razor wire fences, 25,000 armed soldiers to protect himself from “WE the PEOPLE”?
The objectives of the Socialist Democrat Party Rule is all about gaining and keeping COMPLETE control over WE the PEOPLE.
And turn WE the PEOPLE into Servants, Subjects, Slaves and Wards of the Socialist Democrat Party Dictatorship.