"Assualt weapons" used in crime?!

http://www.feinstein.senate.gov/pub...eases?ID=28d0c499-28ec-42a7-902d-ebf318d46d02

So basically more people die in bicycle accidents every year than have people but "assault weapons" in the last eight.

Oh, and that 385 figure accounts for .4% of the total firearms homocides in the last eight years.

Oops!

 

Also, how can a law decrease a crime rate 6.7% (I would love to see this study), if the total usage is only .4%?

LOL

 

It can't. It's like the statistics on black on white crime. 99.9% of all blacks aren't committing crimes against whitey, but people get their knickers in a bunch over it. Less than a percent of a percent of people are killed with guns each year, but because people are emotional about a topic they have to rush to "fix" what isn't a huge problem.

 

No one wants to touch this?

 

Maybe we're just getting a wee bit burned out on the gun thing... maybe

 

Well I remember quite a few people were freaking out over how deadly these weapons are.

So deadly they are used in .4% of all gun related homicides.

 

Dead is dead - tell me, using the SAME logic would you repeal speed limits? Seat belt laws? DUI?

 

As the National Institute of Science found in their study a few years ago, too small a number to have a statistically significant effect on anything...

 

Bad comparison....One would have to force cars to stand still to manage the same sort of restrictions the left demands for guns...

 

Oh wait. Bicycle accidents are accidents.........Straw man

 

I couldn't care less.

Your argument hinges on .4%.

I note how you predictably failed to address that.

 

Would I repeal the seatbelt laws??? In a heart beat. The 55 MPH on all Frederal and State Hightways that got Federal dollars was repealed. DWI laws?? I would give a nasty fine on the first one and throw the perp in jail for a year on the second one. I was hit awhile back by a fool that already had 4 DWI's and of course no drivers license and was waiting to go to trial over two of them.

 

No one wants to play with .4%???

Amusing.

 

Ayuh,.... Ok,... 1st you've gotta define "Assualt weapons",.....

Are We gonna use Feinstein's definition,..??
or are We gonna be more truthful,..??

 

And have you any idea of the number of lives that have been saved by seat belt laws? More importantly - do you have any idea of how much money you have saved the government and therefore yourself with prevention of life long injuries?

This is and should be about mitigation