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In reply to the discussion: Americans Don't Have the Right to Bear Just Any Arms [View all]benEzra
(12,148 posts)58. I'm familiar with those studies, and it again goes to show how rarely
modern-looking rifles are misused (or rifles and shotguns of any type, for that matter). I ran the numbers some years ago in a discussion with Iverglas, and rifles were used in 0.6% of violent crimes, 6.5% of gun crimes, and 3% of homicides, with some small fluctuation from year to year. Rifles are the least misused of all weapons in this country.
Even the gun control lobby used to acknowledge how rarely long guns are misused. Pete Shields himself (head of what is now the Brady Campaign from 1978 to 1989, and more extreme than Sarah Brady who replaced him) stated:
" O)ur organization, Handgun Control, Inc. does not propose further controls on rifles and shotguns. Rifles and shotguns are not the problem; they are not concealable."
At the time he said that, rifles and shotguns probably accounted for twice as many homicides per capita than they do now, FWIW.
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Any thoughts on the article or do you just uncritically accept whatever any GC advocate says?
Nuclear Unicorn
Jul 2015
#1
It appears to be a pre-expanded expanding bullet, clearly more dangerous than
petronius
Jul 2015
#16
Uses a spare magazine as a foregrip, note that the magazine is upside down. n/t
Shamash
Jul 2015
#18
I thought it was a Beretta too. What the fuck is that doohicky on the front, a can opener?
AtheistCrusader
Jul 2015
#49
And uninformed Controllers are the *last* people we'll trust to decide which guns are OK. NT
pablo_marmol
Jul 2015
#21
Those are the bullets capable of knocking airliners out of the sky, dontcha know!
pablo_marmol
Jul 2015
#35
The gun control lobby pushed the "assault weapon" issue as a way to build momentum
benEzra
Jul 2015
#59