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Originally Posted by goldseekur
No one is calling for the COMPLETE banning of guns in the US, just banning semi & automatic rifles. These types of guns do NOT belong in main stream America or any other country for civilians to purchase.
Not to make light of the tragedy in Orlando or any of the other mass shootings that have happened in the US, but if these people had only guns that did not shoot 45 - 60 rounds in a minute for semi automatic and up to 1000 rounds per minute for automatic weapons, the outcomes would be completely different.
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2012 crime stats: murders committed with all firearms: 8,855
murders committed with rifles (all types): 322 (4 killed by AR-15)
Slate estimated AR-15 ownership: 3,750,000
So you see. Banning AR-15s will do little to save lives. Banning ALL rifles will do little to save lives. What you want is to START with banning rifles. Then, when the gun murders do not go down, you will say we need to ban all handguns. NRA and its members know exactly what you want in the end. You want to ban and confiscate ALL firearms.