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In reply to the discussion: Push to ban assault weapons in Virginia meets resistance [View all]EX500rider
(10,839 posts)...and without the firearms the deranged just might switch to a more lethal method like arson or trucks, both which have the potential for bigger body counts and are even less able to be restricted then firearms. Concentrating on the WHY instead of the HOW I think would be a smarter outcome for stopping mass murder.
And of that 30k a year what number were killed with assault rifles exactly? 300 or so? And if that seems like a big number in a country of 300 million+ remember over 35,000 Americans die in unintentional falls every year and about 64,000 from unintentional poisoning. When I hear people here say they are afraid to go to a Walmart what they really should be afraid of is their car or their stairs/ladder or what's under their sink or in their medicine cabinet statiscally-wise.