Active shooter study: Semi-automatic rifles more deadly¿

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CHICAGO — Active shooters with semi-automatic rifles wound and kill twice as many people as those using weapons that don't self-load, although chances of dying if hit in either type of assault are the same, a new analysis shows.

Researchers examined FBI data on nearly 250 active shooter incidents in the United States since 2000. Almost 900 people were wounded and 718 were killed.

One in four of these attacks involved semi-automatic rifles. These weapons automatically load each bullet after firing although firing requires pulling the trigger for each round. :screwy:
 
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So? Did we ask permission to own breachloaders? Did we ask permission to own lever repeaters? Go f*ck yourselves, urban braindead control freaks.
 
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This is one of those things that didn't need to be studied - because everyone with a lick of common sense knows it.

Rifles, shot for shot, are deadlier than pistols. It's why a rifle is a superb choice for hunting, self-defense and military applications. Semi-autos can generally fire more rounds in a given time period than other action types. Again, that's why semi-autos are superb choices for hunting, self-defense and military applications. Is it any wonder, then, that semi-automatic rifles have higher kill and wounding rates per incident? No. Is this relevant to 'the debate on an assault weapons ban'? Again, NO!

If the killed and wounded rates, as well as the usage rates, determined by this study hold over time then semi-automatic rifles kill and wound less total people than other weapons. Even if weapon bans decrease the frequency of mass shooting incidents (a very dubious assumption), focusing on semi-automatic rifles will have the least overall impact. When considered in the much broader context of total homicides by firearm the potential impact of such a ban dwindles even further. Setting aside the fact that the constitutionally protected rights of 100s of millions of Americans would need to be burdened to implement an assault weapons ban, such a ban is completely illogical if 'public safety' is the policy goal.
 
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