06-28-2021, 05:16 AM
Racer X wrote:
Close to 16 times more murders by non-firearms than by rifles...
If you're talking about the state of California, they reported 34 deaths by rifle and 437 by non-firearms, which comes to 12 times more murders by non-firearms than rifles.
And any argumentum that this somehow makes outlawing assault rifles inappropriate is disingenuous at best.
From your own link, they had 1679 total murders reported, of which 1142 were reported as murders by firearm. That's 68 percent of all murders. A whole lot of murders by gun-wielders.
Every little bit helps. There's nothing wrong with starting with regulating the sale of the most deadly weapons and moving down from there to regulating the most-used-in-murder weapons (handguns) as they can, later.