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Straw Man

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2. Disproportionately?
Wed Jun 9, 2021, 03:34 AM
Jun 2021
Assault weapons, more dangerous than other firearms, are disproportionately used in crimes and against law enforcement.

Disproportionately to what? Far more people are killed with handguns than with all rifles, of which assault weapons are only a subset.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5122525/table/Tab1/?report=objectonly

https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2017/crime-in-the-u.s.-2017/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls

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