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Here’s the Chart That Supporters of a Federal Assault Weapons Ban Won’t Want to See

Dec. 20, 2012 5:45pm Jason Howerton

While anti-gun advocates argue that banning semi-automatic rifles, like the popular AR-15, will help decrease shooting deaths in the U.S., FBI data suggests that the average American is more likely to be killed by “hands, fists” or “feet” than a rifle. The anti-gun crowd has intensified its calls for a federal assault weapons ban following the tragedy in Newtown, Conn. last week.

“Yes, massacres tend to be done with weapons like this. But not most gun murders in the U.S.: a vast majority of gun murders in the U.S. are committed with a handgun,” The Washington Examiner’s Timothy Carney writes.

FBI Data Shows Only Small Number of Murders in U.S. Committed With Rifles

(Source: Washington Examiner/FBI)

As you can see in the chart pictured above, the vast majority of murders in the U.S. are indeed committed with handguns, not rifles. More people were killed with shotguns (373), knifes/blades (1,704) and “other weapon[s]” (1,772) more often than they were with rifles in 2010, which were reportedly used in 358 murders that year.

Whether it’s a knife, gun or a fist, will a “ban” of any kind sway a deranged individual’s decision to take human lives?

(H/T: Weasel Zippers)

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Apexduck
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:01pm
It’s OK, once the Assult Weapon Ban is signed and in place, Eric Holder takes over the “list” of bad guns and will be adding plenty to the list. Then he will spring into action with the pages that were not read because it was too important to pass before we read what is in the bill and it will grant him full power to outlaw all handguns. Then the Feds will start the systematic round up of all those evil guns from law abiding folks. We have stepped off the slippery slope folks and it will get ugly.

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Wes Hardin
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:55pm
The reason why there’s so much black-on-black crime is that so many black perps are simply insane. And because they are insane they will commit violent acts with any means available. They don’t need guns.

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Kiba
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:47pm
That doesnt matter to the gun grabbers, as long as they can pass something that has the majical words in it like “ban” and ‘guns” they will wet theirselves just the same.

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FlagWavingPatriot
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:33pm
The Blaze has gone and made the mistake that any of these anti-gun nuts think rationally. They don’t think, they feel.

Facts, statistics and reality have nothing to do with their agenda.

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mrdon2012
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:29pm
and all you are doing is confusing the Sheeple with facts. Might as well be talking in Latin. The days of truth and fact are over, gone, get use to it. We reached the tipping point in Nov 2012; America capsized. Here, I’ll give you all a heads up … 1)Your 401K’s are next on their list. 2) Time to learn more about 20th century German history, 1901-1950. Short term good times are on the way; to be followed by war. Those that don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.

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- Kiba
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:06pm
  More truthfull words have never been spoken. The country has flipped and there is now more takers than makers and it aint never gonna be the same. Its over folks and I just thank God I dont have any young children anymore in this country to raise or I would prolly ship them to the Congo or somewhere where they might have a chance in heck to have a life. Sad isnt it?
  
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KbJockey
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:28pm
I would love to see a graph chart like this done comparing the the same figures but break out the percentage committed under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol. Then include in the chart the number of people killed annually by drunk drivers, pilots, boat drivers and alcohol poisoning.

If every death that occurred as a result of drug/alcohol influence, were to receive the same media attention that a gun death gets, and were to include the number of arrests made of the perpetrator for intoxication prior to the incident resulting in a death, and then a total of the deaths from intoxication to date, I would expect there would be a greater call for alcohol control. And you know I don’t think there is a Constitutional guarantee for the right to intoxication.

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silkworm19
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:22pm
Think about how citizens get Westboro Baptist Church to stop their hate speech, they shout back at them louder. Think about how citizens get the Klan to stop rallying in their town, they shout back at them louder.

The way to combat criminals with guns is to arm more citizens and shoot back at them louder.

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- dalek
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 11:53pm
  I never was big on the anonymous group but when they went after the Westboro Church folks, that was really cool. They been shouting at people about their ways for a long while and now, they get a taste of what they been dishing out.
  
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JTX
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:20pm
More FACTS the socialist democrat party will NOT TELL YOU.

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deerjerkydave
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:15pm
Over half of firearm related deaths in America are from suicides. I just discovered that about 2,000 homicides are committed each year from gangs. There’s not much left once you strip these out.

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- UnitedNations
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:35pm
  Idiot.Those numbers in the chart are for murders by guns. It doesn’t include suicides or accidental gun deaths. Add those in and the total for 2007 (the latest figures) and it 32,000 deaths by guns in one year.
  
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i_believe
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:14pm
And how many of the hand guns were procured illegally. This is all about disarming the population so they can’t protect themselves against their own out of control government.

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Polarized America
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:13pm
ALL PRO………………your link is from
Author: By Susan Candiotti and Sarah Aarthun CNN <—— CNN

and it came out shortly after the shootings. i heard somewhere that the weapon found in the car turned out to be a shotgun in the trunk ….so your link may be worthless

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DatabaseSue
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:12pm
The graph is missing something. Oh, wait, I know, it’s how many babies are killed by abortion!

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RestoreCapitalism
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:10pm
In Florida, a man just killed his wife, who was a high ranking employee of the police department, with a baseball bat. So are you going to outlaw all baseball bats, except for the nerf ones? If someone had been there with a gun, they no doubt could have saved her life.

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UnitedNations
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:05pm
How are 9,000 gun deaths in 2010 acceptable?
The founders were talking about muskets…not rapidly firing modern guns.
If your so concerned about the constitution then I’m fine with you all carrying muskets and blunderbusses in your pants.

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- sparkyrules
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:26pm
  You stick with your interpretation of ‘founders’ intent,UNITEDNATIONS.As a USA Citizen,your ‘founders’ aren’t mine and never were you little snake.
  
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- DEFCON4
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:43pm
  @un, You don’t have a clue what the “Founders” were talking about.
  Do you understand the meaning of tyranny ?
  
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- Dustoff
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:59pm
  Hey bud. Semi-autos have been around sine the late 1800. It’s not the guns that is the problem.
  
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- mgh999
  Posted on December 21, 2012 at 12:21am
  Not one more musket line. It says arms, not muskets – do you not think people realized technology would advance arms? Then I guess radio, TV, Internet are under the first?
  
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- dalek
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 12:35am
  If you want to claim that muskets are all the 2nd Amendment is about. Then the 1st Amendment is only about pen and paper. No internet. No telephone. Nothing modern. If it didn’t exist back in the late 1700′s, it doesn’t apply.
  
  Sort of makes you look silly doesn’t it?
  
  The 2nd Amendment says “arms” not muskets. It also says “shall not be infringed” too.
  
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scissorflash
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:00pm
I think all semi-automatic weapons should be illegal. They should all be confiscated. Let’s regulate that “well regulated militia” the Second Amendment speaks of. You can have your shotguns, revolvers, and bolt action rifles.

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- Norm D. Plume
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:20pm
  A revolver might as well be a semi-automatic weapon. One trigger pull = one projectile, until the gun is empty.
  
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- DEFCON4
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 7:26pm
  “Well-Regulated” implies nothing more than the imposition
  of proper discipline and training.
  
  As, for the confiscating them. Good Luck!
  That’s the beauty of the 2nd Ammendment…..
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:02pm
  At the time of the 2nd amendment, the folks were as well armed as the professional military.
  
  I’d like to see some grey haired grandmothers in the inner city start shooting back at the thugs who do drive-bys.
  
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- sparkyrules
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 8:17pm
  Scissorflash,I guess you’ve never speed loaded a revolver or a shotgun for that matter.You know nothing about firearms.
  Stick with slingshots and blow darts.Leave the big boy stuff to the responsible.
  
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KbJockey
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:55pm
It is amazing to me that so called experts say that if there is a firearm in a school that it should only be possessed by a police officer. As if there is something special about police that they don’t suffer from the same emotional, psychological or other problems that the rest of us do. The only difference between a police officer is background check, psychological checks and training.
Why not allow teachers, if they desire, and require administrators to conceal carry.
Of course they should be required pass the same background and psychological tests and train monthly with their weapon the way police do. Any administrator that could not pass the tests or refused to train and carry should not be allowed to hold that position.

How about having the training done with the sheriff department and when qualified deputize them.

On a side note: A high percentage of all gun related crime is committed under the influence of alcohol or drugs. How about banning alcohol….. Oh that’s right it was tried once and it failed. Besides too many liberals, lawyers, congressmen etc. are lushes themselves (Ted Kennedy, a gun ban advocate) and could not bear to have their favorite pass time banned the way they want to ban gun enthusiast’s pass time.

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- dalek
  Posted on December 22, 2012 at 12:42am
  If a teacher or staff is going to be armed, I would rather they volunteer. I believe there would be plenty of them that would too. There was 6 that gave their lives to protect those kids the other day. I bet those 6 and likely 6 more would have volunteered to stop it and live instead of dying trying.
  
  Yea, prohibition worked out great didn’t it? We got cities like Chicago and people like Al Capone. Yep, worked out great. This paragraph contains sarcasm. First one was serious tho.
  
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Elena2010
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:54pm
I read on another board that 2/3′s of the deaths due to firearms were actually self-inflicted, not murder/manslaughter of another person.

The libs don’t want to hear that either!

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Marsh626
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:53pm
All this list will do is embolden D Baggers to ban handguns…

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nesmond
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:51pm
446 kids shot in Chicago this year and no one decries that. 3,700 murdered by abortions every single day, but that is a good thing. Hypocrites.

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noslave
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:41pm
now remove/define the illegal vs legal guns used to kill???and normal folks vs gang/thug violence???illegal guns and gang/thug violence will account for the majority of killings??,but our cowards in govt find it safer to bother the non-democrat voters??

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AlaskaBob
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:38pm
I asked a sincere woman… “If drive-by shootings were primarily done with Ford Mustangs, would banning Mustangs decrease shootings?” She said, “yes.” Recently, scholars noted that ancient peoples were by and large smarter than today…. had to be to survive. Just read the words of Pericles and see how they ring true today and then compare them to today’s politicians…. where is Mr. Peabody and the Way-Back Machine when you really need them???

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Daddy Hawg
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:32pm
Anybody here know that Feinstein and Boxer both have concealed carry permits? Do a quick google of Diane Feinstien concealed carry and you will find both in the mix.
On another note, the DOJ’s website has statistics that show a steady decrease in violent crime since 1993 regardless of any bans. There are no significant bumps at the start or end of the assault weapons ban.

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johnpaulkuchtajr
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:30pm
During the early 1980′s, I worked in the North Sea and went on duck and hare hunts with Brits I worked with. A great time was had by all. They had to give up their guns. They can’t hunt now unless they wish to chase down hares with big sticks.

I was raised in the deep south in a hunting family and I can’t imagine the sort of wussified rationale that espouses that young people can’t learn about weapons and, most importantly, to learn the damage that they can do. As a lad of 10 years, I saw deer killed with a shotgun and knew that this was not a toy. But, these days, the kids are all mall rats and video game artists. They play video killing games that they think are just like the real thing. If you need a great example of how these kids act when confronted by an armed victim, just look at the suicides once the good guys arrive on scene. This shooter in CT had no idea what he was doing because he was crazy, right? But, oddly enough, he knew what could happen once police arrived and he he bit down hard on the barrel of one his pistols.

“Remember Benghazi and all the Traitors!”

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- Elena2010
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:56pm
  Not to mention, Texas has a serious problem w/feral hogs. If we don’t have hunters, we will be soon overrun by the miserable creatures.
  
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Hootis
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:25pm
Why does anyone need a 36 inch long baseball bat? A baseball is just under 3 inches in diameter… why does your baseball bat have to be so big?

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sparkyrules
Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:19pm
The answer to your question Jason,is NO.There are endless ways to commit mass murder,just by using your imagination.The firearm of course is one of the most violent,in your face methods and it gives the criminal the feeling of being all powerful,I think.Anybody remember Jonestown,Guyana?That sick freak ‘Reverend’ Jim Jones murdered those people(his followers) by poisoning, just as surely as any gunman has done with a firearm.I guess we’d better ban cyanide or make it impossible to get.
I’m a Free and responsible individual with 2nd Amendment rights and I REFUSE to be lumped together with those who have evil intentions and commit heinous crimes with firearms or any other methods.
They’d better grandfather any new laws in,because I will not comply with a semi-automatic rifle ban or a magazine round limit.I have just as much right to any personal protection/defense as I feel necessary as those worthless politicians in DC do.

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- B-Neil
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:30pm
  You said it better then me. Carry on, I’ll be in the area off and on
  
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- Elena2010
  Posted on December 20, 2012 at 6:59pm
  Rwandans killed roughly 1 million of their own countrymen w/machetes and fire. That took only 90 days.
  
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