When someone goes off (or on) their meds and shoots others, the media is quick to focus on a specific type of rifle and call for a ban. In the grand scheme of things -- what would a ban do to reduce violence in the US? Probably not much.
More here: https://www.lawenforcementtoday.com/...ifles-in-2018/According to the FBI, more than five times as many people were killed in 2018 by knives, clubs and other cutting instruments than with rifles.
The metrics show that there were a total of 1,515 deaths by knives or other cutting instruments last year. Compare that against 297 people killed by rifles.
It’s a gap that widened significantly over 2017. In that year, the FBI said nearly four times as many people were stabbed to death as killed with rifles. During that year, the number of murders with rifles was around 400. It gets better. More than 100 more people were killed with hammers and clubs in 2018 than were killed by rifles.
There were 443 people killed with hammers, clubs, or other “blunt objects”. We need to point out that the data isn’t just semiautomatic rifles – it’s ALL rifles, including bolt action, pump or lever action rifles as well.