Data Confirm Semiautomatic Rifles Linked to More Deaths, Injuries.

[Cattledog]

If a shooter uses a semiautomatic rifle instead of another type of gun, it appears to roughly double the chances of victims being wounded and killed.



Researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) came to this conclusion about “active shooters”—people who attempt to kill or hurt others with a gun in a populated area—in a paper published Tuesday. The work analyzed more than 200 such incidents in the U.S.
A 1994 federal assault weapons ban prohibited manufacturing, transferring or possessing certain semiautomatic firearms for civilian use. But that legislation expired in 2004, and gun control advocates have since been lobbying hard to reintroduce such limitations alongside other more expansive gun reform.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/data-confirm-semiautomatic-rifles-linked-to-more-deaths-injuries/?fbclid=IwAR3ECdiA-PmHxPN-z8t5o3bivgkfdmZ009KsR0k4U9hwb83l8t4f8oZYKE8

[RockRaven]

1. This is precisely why the NRA and GOP have worked so hard to keep the CDC from studying gun violence

Objective, factual analyses are likely to provide evidence that certain types of gun control and/or less gun ownership increases public safety, not the contrary as is their claim. And that would be bad for their blood-profits.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

4. exactly! ban semi-automatics

The Supreme Court was simply wrong in the Heller case; the 2nd Amendment clearly indicates that firearms can be regulated.

[struggle4progress]

2. "Shoot more bullets: maim and kill more people"

[malaise]

3. Duh!

Rec

[ManiacJoe]

5. Read the article to get past the hype.