The reality is simple. Anyone planning to kill a lot of folks, will pick the best weapon for the job. Today that weapon is the AR- 15. Trouble is that plenty of alternatives exist.
A rifle is chosen because the attacker wants range. The real alternative is any old hunting rifle in skilled hands. My real point is that you can not ban your way to an option free environment. After the loss of rifles we are back to short range handguns, also large mags and automatic. Then ladies, it is close and personal with knives.
When any damn jailbird can produce an illegal shive, the whole proposition of banning weapons is absurd and only an excuse to disarm citizens needing self defense measures.
FBI Stats Show Knives Kill Far More People Than Rifles In America – It’s Not Even Close
March 24, 20212:41 PM ET
https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/24/knives-kill-more-people-than-rifles-every-year/
Recent shootings in Atlanta, Georgia, and Boulder, Colorado, are driving a renewed push to ban “assault-style” rifles like the AR-15 — but according to FBI data, far more murders are committed with handguns, knives or even hands and feet.
The FBI’s most recent data from 2019 shows that while firearms account for the vast majority of homicides overall — 10,258 — the number of homicides committed using a rifle (364) is much smaller.
Handguns were listed as the primary weapon in 6,368 cases, and shotguns accounted for another 200. There were 45 cases that named “other gun” as the weapon, and 3,281 cases in which the type of firearm was not specified. Assuming the unspecified cases follow the same ratio as the reported firearm types, the number of cases in which a rifle was used would increase by approximately 120 — bringing that total number to 484.
In addition, 600 people were killed in 2019 with what the FBI refers to as “personal weapons,” meaning hands, fists or feet. Knives or other “cutting tools” accounted for another 1,476 homicides — about three times the number killed by rifles.
Despite that data, following nearly every mass shooting in recent history, there has been a push to tighten gun control laws — but, more specifically, to ban the AR-15 or other “assault-style” rifles.
The argument behind that push was that the AR-15, due to its power and versatility, appeared to be the weapon of choice in a number of mass shooting events.
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