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Originally Posted by Sarah_W
Your theory has already been debunked. A simple Google search would show you the weapon of choice for mass shooters and school shooters is a semi-auto handgun, NOT the AR platform that seems to scare the bejesus out of you. Since I know your Google Fu is top notch then must assume it was just laziness on your part, or a poor assumption as I did previously.
This killer in Uvalde locked himself in a classroom and killed the two adults and 19 children in that classroom. He did not need an AR to accomplish the same task. He could have used a 12 ga. pump shotgun and still massacred the same 21 victims in under 2 or 3 minutes. Whether you kill 21 people in 1 minute or 2 minutes the outcome is the same. As long as nobody engages the killer, the killing will continue until he is out of ammunition, offs himself, or someone else stops him. Unarmed victims will NEVER be able to stop an armed killer.
Ban AR's and determined killers will choose another weapon and achieve the same infamy they seek.
The percentage of households with firearms has been decreasing since 1972 when the data began to be collected. Simple logic dictates as our population increases the number of firearms will increase. The percentage of ownership however is decreasing.
Also, guns have been in common use in our country for over 300 years. But for the past 30 years we suddenly have a problem. Why?
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All, true, except you, left off a point. As the number of people that own guns have decreased (I think around 40% to around 30% of households since 1970?) the total number of guns has increased significantly. This means fewer people have more guns.