I've been signing similar petitions for years. Maybe something this time. Assault weapons are a little piece of the gun deaths although the weapon of choice for mass killers. To those above who say if we take away guns they will just use knives or baseball bats... that is IMO an apologists argument. We have 32000 gun deaths in the US per year. Do you really think if these killers did not have guns many would have substituted other instruments for lethal means with equal efficacy? I hear this fallacy too often and ask that those of you who believe it produce the data showing equivalent lethality or weapon substitution. On the same day as the school massacre in Newtown, a knife wielding man attacked a school in China. He wounded 22 kids before he was stopped. None died.None died. None died.
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