Less than 3% of all firearms related murders in 2018 were by rifle (297 out of 10,256). Good fact to keep in mind...


FBI SAYS VIOLENT CRIME DOWN; CCRKBA ASKS DEMS ‘WHAT GUN VIOLENCE EPIDEMIC?’
Monday, September 30th, 2019

BELLEVUE, WA – The newly-release FBI Uniform Crime Report for 2018 says violent crime is down overall 3.3 percent from 2017, and the number of reported homicides involving firearms also declined, leading the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms to ask Democrats and the gun prohibition lobby: “What ‘gun violence’ epidemic are you talking about?”

According to the new FBI data, last year there were an estimated 14,123 murders in the United States, which is down from the 15,129 reported in 2017. In 2018, an estimated 10,256 slayings involved firearms, down slightly from the 10,982 posted by the FBI during the previous year.

“So, the number of murders has gone down,” CCRKBA Chairman Alan Gottlieb observed. “Yet, in order to create the impression that this country is awash in violent crime, gun grabbers routinely combine the number of homicides and suicides, plus accidental deaths and call them all acts of so-called ‘gun violence.’ It is deliberately misleading and downright dishonest. Why are Democrats and the gun prohibition lobby lying about this?

“It is important to note,” Gottlieb continued, “that last year, according to the new FBI data, only 297 murders are known to have been committed with rifles of any kind, yet Democrats including all of those now running for president want to ban modern semiautomatic sporting rifles, which they repeatedly mischaracterize as ‘weapons of war.’ Millions of honest citizens own such firearms, and they have harmed nobody.”

Gottlieb, in the aftermath of the most successful and largest Gun Rights Policy Conference in the event’s 34-year history, said the time has come for the “honest conversation” anti-gunners continually demand.

“Let’s have this discussion,” he challenged, “and let’s stick to the facts. Let’s leave the emotions and theatrics outside. It’s time for the gun prohibition lobby, and their Democrat allies, to explain why they want to unilaterally disarm this country’s law-abiding gun owners. Why are they determined to penalize every gun owner for crimes they didn’t commit? Why do they treat the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms as a government-regulated privilege? The right to keep and bear arms predates the Second Amendment. We have the Second Amendment to prevent the government from taking away our liberty, and it’s time for Democrats and gun grabbers to explain why they want to change that.”



https://www.ccrkba.org/fbi-say...n-violence-epidemic/

Facts don't matter, when emotion prevails.

In VA the number of murders with bare hands were almost double that of rifles. Ban fists!

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Originally posted by Leemur:
In VA the number of murders with bare hands were almost double that of rifles. Ban fists!

So now, “all the usual suspects” should include everyone who has skinned his knuckles turning a wrench.

I'm sure our honest media will report this on the 5:30 P.M. national TV News.

Murder Stats Problem:
They are not a true representation of violent crime. What is more telling are the stats on felony / aggravated assault and assault with a deadly weapon.

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Originally posted by YooperSigs:
Murder Stats Problem:
They are not a true representation of violent crime. What is more telling are the stats on felony / aggravated assault and assault with a deadly weapon.

If Chicago is a bellweather, Heyjackass.com shows the bad guys' guns have killed 365 and wounded 1763 YTD (i.e. on track to be much lower than 2017). That tells me two things:

the pricks can't shoot for shit

handguns aren't as deadly as the news would have you believe

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the pricks can't shoot for shit

handguns aren't as deadly as the news would have you believe

They learned to shoot by watching TV, and their buddies shooting sideways. We've had stats that show both the pricks and the cops have a very poor record of hitting what they aim at, if they bother to aim.

We all know handguns aren't all that deadly, but no one wants to get shot by one. Most of us actually do better with a shotgun.