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That's some bullshit. The end goal is complete disarming of the public. Stop fooling yourself.
Straw purchases are how the majority of firearms used in crime are obtained, not from theft.
Yes tell that to all the people who are killed by knives. Which is 3xs higher than all rifles combined. Which you clearly want to ban..that black plastic rifle you think is a weapon of war, kills around 50-100 people a year. Hands and feet kill 2xs all rifles combined and about 15xs more than the AR-15 yearly.
This is just nonsense...see above.
First, I'm all for single payer healthcare, secondly, cops kill on average around 1k Americans a year...yea... I'm not worried about the boots...
Lol handguns are used in 95% of all gun violence...and it's like 99% of all suicides. That black scary rifle is a rounding error on firearm deaths...and it's not a weapon of war, it's a semi-auto rifle dressed up in plastic...the military wouldn't be caught dead with one of them.
You totally missed every point I made and replied with, no they're not rather than offering any evidence. Show me that the majority are pushing to ban all guns 100%. Straw purchases are already illegal but unenforced, can't do much when cops refuse to do their job. I didn't say people don't die from knives, but a stab isn't going to kill a random person on the street accidentally like a stray bullet. And there's a huge difference between a knife wound and a bullet wound that makes it much easier to treat. And the knife doesn't break apart, shredding nearby organs, rarely breaks larger bones, or in the case of supersonic rounds from the mentioned weapons of war, cause compression shockwaves that pulverize organs. If you haven't spent time in combat or an ER or around gunshot wounds, you have no idea. I've seen organ soup after a close range stomach wound from a high powered rifle. And I don't care that handguns are the most common. They're also the most commonly used for defense. It's the high powered ruffles that liquify your organs when used in drive-by shootings that have no reason to be in the hands of civilians in the first place.
If you're going to argue for a cause, then at least know what the people on the other side are saying. Quit making up straw men and arguing slippery slope nonsense.