The Right To Bear Arms And Feet
How long before we hear the rallying cry that, “you can have my shoes when you pry them from my cold dead feet?” I ask because apparently feet, not to mention hands, are more lethal than guns. This from the Daily Caller, which relates results from the FBI’s 2007-2011 “Murder Victims by Weapon” report:
The results are contradictory to anti-gun industry claims that relaxing the ban on assault weapons will cause more crime.
The report indicates you are more likely to be killed by hands or feet than by a rifle or shotgun.
Since 2007 there has been a 16.2% decline in murders committed with personal weapons which are defined as “hands, fists, feet etc.” The number of murders of this type in 2011 totaled 728.
While gun ownership has dramatically increased since 2007, murders for both the shotgun and rifle categories have seen declines faster than the rate of personal weapons related crime.
The rates of decline for the shotgun and rifle categories are 22.1% and 28.7% respectively. In 2011 there were 356 shotgun murders and 323 rifle murders for a total of 679 murders.
Total murders by hands and feet in 2011 exceed the total number of murders by shotgun and rifle.
Interesting data, which will make not one dent of difference if you ever try using it against the gun-ban cabal, whose ultimate goal has little to do with reducing crime. Their aim, no pun intended, is simply to ban guns and further restrict personal liberties.
Meanwhile, this.
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