An article from Breitbart News written in October of 2017 showcases that FBI statistics show that more people were killed by fist and feet than by any kind of rifles. They also showed that 4 times as many people were stabbed in 2016 than killed with rifles of any kind.
The FBI Uniform Crime Report (UCR) for 2016 shows more than four times as many people were stabbed to death than were killed with rifles of any kind.
And because the category of rifles covers every type of rifle, this means there would be an even greater divide between the number of people stabbed to death versus those shot to death with an AR-15 or similar rifle.
According to FBI: UCR Table 12, there were approximately 374 people shot and killed with rifles of any kind. There were 1,604 people killed with “knives or cutting instruments.â€
Table 12 also shows that more people were killed via the use of “hands, fists, feet, etc.,†than were killed by rifles of any kind. In fact, the tally shows that the death numbers were not even close. While approximately 374 people were shot and killed with rifles, roughly 656 people were beaten to death with “hands, fists, feet, etc.â€
This is not to diminish the deaths of those who did die via a rifle. But it does show that the Democrats’ relentless focus on banning “assault weapons†is a focus on something that is not used for homicide with anywhere near the frequency of knives and/or fists and feet.
It is important that people understand this before debating Gun Control. Yes, these Mass Shootings are awful but you can’t make policies off these events you need to make policies off the entirety of the problem we are facing.
