in 2011, per the FBI:
8583 murders were committed with firearms
4081 murders were committed without
Almost half as many are committed without firearms..a pretty significant percentage.
728 were committed with hands and feet.
FBI ? Expanded Homicide Data Table 8
So only 323 murders were committed with rifles, which includes so called 'assault rifles'; so why are gun grabbing fascists so intent on banning assault rifles?
And once again, handguns are the most commonly used weapon because that is what they are designed for and thus are the preference by most murderers.
Where is the evidence that making possession of handguns illegal would not cause murderers to simply use other weapons or defy the law any way as happened for a number of years in the UK when they banned all guns?
North Korea is a national prison camp, under the most severe controls modern technology can devise and their homicide RATE is still triple what ours is.
It is one thing to observe that guns are so often used in murder, it is a totally different problem finding solutions that really reduce homicides with guns, like increased punishments for using guns in crimes has been shown to work.
Suicides account for most gun deaths | Pew Research Center
Suicides by gun accounted for about six of every 10 firearm deaths in 2010 and just over half of all suicides, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
And since 60% of gun homicides are self inflicted (suicide is homicide) banning guns would not stop those deaths as there are so many ways one can kill oneself if determined to do so, a gun ban would prevent nothing.
