I have a few rabid anti-gun people as friends on Facebook. One guy in particular that I get along with pretty well as an online friend is extremely vocal about his feelings on the subject. Every so often I write my own little diatribe. I just posted this earlier on my Facebook page. Disclaimer, reading my post might make you think I support banning handguns. I don't I'm just taking that angle to make a point.
As an aside, I convinced that super anti-gun guy that big game hunting in Africa is actually good for overall population of game animals. So, little victories.
Anyway, here is my Facebook post:
"Why are gun grabbers so fixated with "assault rifles"? The amount of people killed by "assault rifles" every year is infinitesimal compared to those killed with handguns. More people are killed with blunt objects, bare hands, or even shotguns than with "assault rifles". Not to mention the FBI doesn't separate "assault rifles" from regular vanilla rifles in their statistics, so who knows what the real stat is? Point is, if your going to ban weapons, ban them in order of documented deadliness. So yeah, ban handguns, but then you have to go in sequential order. So next comes knives or cutting tools, then blunt objects, then hands and feet, then shotguns, then rifles, then fire.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8"
As an aside, I convinced that super anti-gun guy that big game hunting in Africa is actually good for overall population of game animals. So, little victories.
Anyway, here is my Facebook post:
"Why are gun grabbers so fixated with "assault rifles"? The amount of people killed by "assault rifles" every year is infinitesimal compared to those killed with handguns. More people are killed with blunt objects, bare hands, or even shotguns than with "assault rifles". Not to mention the FBI doesn't separate "assault rifles" from regular vanilla rifles in their statistics, so who knows what the real stat is? Point is, if your going to ban weapons, ban them in order of documented deadliness. So yeah, ban handguns, but then you have to go in sequential order. So next comes knives or cutting tools, then blunt objects, then hands and feet, then shotguns, then rifles, then fire.
http://www.fbi.gov/about-us/cjis/ucr/crime-in-the-u.s/2011/crime-in-the-u.s.-2011/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8"