richard_daily
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What is an "assault weapon" anyways? and why did banning these imaginary devices fail to stop crime?
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/assault-weapons-ban-failed/2014/09/14/id/594500/
"It turns out that big, scary military rifles don’t kill the vast majority of the 11,000 Americans murdered with guns each year. Little handguns do," Beckett said.
According to FBI data, only 322 people were murdered with any kind of rifle in 2012 — and the continued focus on assault weapons stems from heavy media coverage of "mass shootings, which disproportionately involve weapons like the AR-15, a civilian version of the military M16 rifle," she said.
"This, in turn, obscures some grim truths about who is really dying from gunshots.
"Most Americans do not know that gun homicides have decreased by 49 percent since 1993 as violent crime also fell, though rates of gun homicide in the United States are still much higher than those in other developed nations," Beckett said.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/assault-weapons-ban-failed/2014/09/14/id/594500/