Rifles (of any kind) are used in 403 homicides in 2018 , though I have to ask myself why over 3,000 don’t have the weapon used documented. Handguns were used in 7,032. Knives 1,591. Blunt objects 467. And yes, hands and feet, 696, easily beating ARs.
You have to wonder why they focus on the AR (some portion of the 403). Well, not really. They just play well in the media. Once they won that, there would be the next inanimate, yet evil device for them to eliminate (except for the government).
The number of gun murders though has started climbing again though. I enjoyed being able to state it had dropped for decades in spite of an explosion in gun ownership. Can’t state that as starkly.
sorry, data is from last year available. 2017.
“You have to wonder why they focus on the AR . . . ?”
I have long maintained that it is because it is an ugly, black gun that can be easily “promoted” as a deadly “Assault Rifle?”
After all, doesn’t AR stand for “Assault Rifle?” (sarcasm off)
AR-15s are too easy for anti-gunners to stigmatize as “Evil Assault Rifles!”
Yet they themselves are protected by good guys with guns even as they pontificate and LIE about those of us who believe in the Second Amendment!
I believe they are overplaying their hand, and that We the People and the US Constitution will prevail!
Common sense may be in the offing!