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Originally Posted by Sarah_W
Approximately 6,000 people are murdered every year with a firearm. According to FBI of those 6,000 murders, 340 are done with rifles of ALL types. From 2007-2017, 173 people were killed by an AR style rifle. That is an average of 17.3 per year during that decade. The fact of the matter is AR style rifles are rarely used in murders of any kind.
Estimates are there are about 20 million AR's in the country, yet it is rare to be used in murder. The solution you are proposing is to deny millions of Americans their Constitutional right to own an AR while have a negligible effect on murders. That solution is not logical to me and unacceptable to law-abiding citizens such as myself.
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As to the last sentence..........US people may change their minds as to how MUCH gun regulation they will accept - IF these mass-murder events continue to increase. The past can be a good predictor or the future. And the PAST 2 years have had LARGE increases in mass murders. So, likely, the near future will be a DISASTER with respect to DOMESTIC terrorism. People will get "up in arms" about the situation (no pun intended).
I keep repeating that Australia and other countries have SOLVED their domestic terrorism PROBLEM. Why can't the US ? I would tend to believe it is because of NRA propaganda emanating from the high profits made by the gun manufacturers. Australia and New Zealand never let the NRA (or similar organization) get their propaganda-dripping hooks into their society.