LETTER: 2nd Amendment sanctuaries are repugnant

Hmm! How many murders involve rifles like the AR-15?
If we take the time to look at the raw data provided by the FBI, we find that all rifles, not just “assault-style rifles,” constitute on average 340 homicides per year from 2007 through 2017 (see Figure 1.). When we adjust these numbers to take under-reporting into account, that number rises to an average of 439 per year.

Figure 2 compares rifle homicides to homicides with other non-firearm weapons. Believe it or not, between 2007 and 2017, nearly 1,700 people were murdered with a knife or sharp object per year. That’s almost four times the number of people murdered by an assailant with any sort of rifle.

Figure 1. The Relative and Absolute Frequency of Rifle Homicides 2007-2017




Figure 2. Homicides per year by weapon 2007 – 2017



In any given year, for every person murdered with a rifle, there are 15 murdered with handguns, 1.7 with hands or fists, and 1.2 with blunt instruments. In fact, homicides with any sort of rifle represent a mere 3.2 percent of all homicides on average over the past decade.

Given that the FBI statistics pertain to all rifles, the homicide frequency of “assault-style” rifles like the AR-15 is necessarily lesser still, as such firearms compose a fraction of all the rifles used in crime.
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Warren L. Larson is an asshole!

Here is the response I left to someone on another forum about this very thing and about states removing our Constitutional rights:

You make ALL the excuses you want.

The problem DID NOT HAPPEN OVERNIGHT. And if you want something bad enough, YOU FIGHT FOR IT. You don't make excuses, you don't try to explain the why's and how's.

My father and grandfather taught me, you stand on your own two feet and you take responsibility and you do what is needed. PERIOD.

Don't give me all the excuses. YOU live there and YOU have to look in the mirror because if people like you don't make a stand somehow, someway., someday you will lose not just all your 2nd Amendment but a whole lot more than that.

When they move to take away your first amendment, are you going to whine and complain and explain how it's too hard to fix or change then too? Or maybe they remove your 5th amendment.. Are you going to just sit here and make more excuses?

Me? I will fight. I will use the law and I use every means I can to fight while I can. But in the end, should God Forbid, the day come where I am forced to make a decision about standing in front of my home with my weapons and fighting back against those that come to take them, you damn well bet that is exactly what I will do.

I did not serve all the years I did in the military and end up a disabled Veteran just to let someone in power walk all over my rights. It WILL NOT HAPPEN.