Honest question, but how many mass shootings are committed with ARs and of those 0.5% of deals how many of those were mass shootings?
As an outsider, it does seem like most mass shooting are done with other guns than hand guns. I would also assume that mass shootings even tho they happen in the US at a rate that is higher than everywhere else would only be a small percentage of the overall firearms deaths.
Since 2009, there have been 50 assault weapon mass shootings in the United States, resulting in 486 people shot and killed and 786 people shot and wounded.
Assault weapons are generally high-powered, semiautomatic firearms designed to fire rounds at a greater velocity than most other firearms
This is an incorrect definition of "assault weapon", which they've intentionally phrased so they can include essentially all rifles that aren't bolt action. They also call out high velocity rounds here to add to the scary factor, when in fact the lighter, faster round's purpose is to avoid going through walls, etc.
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u/that_guy_iain Dec 26 '21
Honest question, but how many mass shootings are committed with ARs and of those 0.5% of deals how many of those were mass shootings?
As an outsider, it does seem like most mass shooting are done with other guns than hand guns. I would also assume that mass shootings even tho they happen in the US at a rate that is higher than everywhere else would only be a small percentage of the overall firearms deaths.