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.
It’s about banning semi auto pistols. Then wheel guns later. If you look at Frankensteins bill it says in particular semi Auto weapons. Sad thing is my hands are registered I’m not sure what to do.
A knife can’t kill 30 people in a matter of seconds.
Yet knives are readily available and guns are not. Get out of your box once and a while. There is a big world out there and it just isnt about YOU.
The Good people don’t kill anybody !!! Only the Bad kill !!!!! So the Good should keep their guns !!!!
Facts don’t matter to the Democrat Nazis