Please support the choking on a hot dog assertion. I'm very interested. And for what purpose would any civilian own an AR 15. Which fires, I've seen 8 or 13 rounds, per second. Not for hunting deer, surely. For hunting people makes a lot more sense.The " people" would be the those conducting the filibuster and others who want gun control. I am usually optimistic about change. However, an assault rifle ban would save very few lives ( although it would have saved a few in Orlando) but it is probably the best that canbe done at this point. There are hundreds of millions of guns in the USA right now.
I'm not trying to be saradonic but an assault-rifle ban would not have saved any lives. The firearm used wasn't an assault rifle. Many more people die from choking on hot dogs in the US than deaths from an actual assault rifle.
The term assault weapon is another one of those misnomers. Essentially the way they consider different firearms "assault weapons" is like you painting flames on your ford station wagon and it being considered a race car.
What would help the US gun control advocates is to do away with the fear tactics and stupidity of this assault weapon stuff and move towards banning semi-automatic rifles as a whole. This would effect stereotypical hunting rifles right along side the scary army looking ones (which function the same way) but at least there's some form of argument backing it.
a civilian AR15 does not fire 8-13 rounds per second. They fire a bullet as fast as you can pull a trigger. The faster you shoot the less accurate you are and more likely to miss. By and large the military moved away from fully automatic rifles (squeeze the trigger and fire 30 bullets in one burst more or less) because you can't hit shit with them.
You could argue that in a tightly packed room such as a night club accuraccy is less of an issue if you're firing a lot of bullets and you wouldn't be wrong, but a shotgun can essentially fire 11 (or more) deadly projectiles at once from one bullet and my shotgun holds 14 so thats 154 projectiles in a few seconds.
For the assault rifles easy. Assault rifles are fully automatic and very cost prohibited and difficult to obtain. According to the FBI only 2 legally owned ones have been used in murders in the USA. Number of murders committed with rifles (all types) is around 250. Semi-automatic, single shot, bolt action, pump-action, which encompass thousands of different models.
2500 people die from choking and hot dogs are the leading cause of choking deaths in children (or possibly children under 3?).
Assault rifles are not used for murders in the US. Rifles themselves count for very few murders.
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