On 10/18/2020 7:47 AM, TimR wrote:
Every year in the US there are roughly 14,000 homicides and 22,000 suicides by gun.

Of those, a little less than 1/4 % of homicides and 1/10 % of suicides are by assault rifle, but banning assault rifles is widely seen as the solution to the murder rate.

I don't like to accuse people of being racist without knowing them, but it really does seem like the reasoning here is to ban the types of guns that are most scary to white people. I would suspect that people of color are more likely to be shot with 9 mm handguns.


Right and more people are killed by hammers and other blunt instruments
then so called assault rifles.