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Originally Posted by G1911
Pretty accurate, the exacts change year to year of course, but the vast majority of ‘gun deaths’ are suicides every year. After you take out those, you take out people shot and killed by the police (who of course are not regulated by gun restrictions), and rightful self defense shootings (most self defense uses of a firearm don’t result in a corpse or even a shooting, most of the time the gun doesn’t need to be discharged to neutralize the threat) you’re left with a very small number. And of that small number, almost all of them are handguns. The most commonly used cartridge in a murder is .22lr, the weakest commonly available round and the least reliable. On the macro level, it is incredibly rare for someone to be killed with a ‘scary rifle’ like an AR or an AK. Last I checked a few years ago, the FBI statistics reveal a person is more likely to be murdered with a hammer than with a rifle with a pistol grip and detachable magazine.
Personally, the framing of the debate reveals the political nature. If the purpose was humanitarian, we would look at murders, not ‘gun deaths’. The weapon used does not make a murder more or less tragic, but we act like it does because nobody politically cares about hammers or kitchen knives. That doesn’t score points for their side.
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I agree 100%. It's unfortunate that many don't see the virtue signaling, the politicization and the media spin that is put on these types of tragedies. Taking legal guns away from legal, rightful owners, like our PM is attempting to do, will not stop anything, but yet many still don't understand this, unfortunately.
https://www.tiktok.com/@garyramey1/v...kmXy8FTat&_r=1
https://youtu.be/vZSA7QjVT6A
Trudeau's new gun law doesn't target gun crime
https://torontosun.com/opinion/colum...rget-gun-crime