Was the good guy with the gun really a good guy, or was this just another AR-15 murder spree?

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56. How is that the solution?

The gun violence epidemic is, by and large, committed with handguns. Just 3% of gun murders are committed with all rifles combined, including ARs and their variants.

Impoverished and disadvantaged minorities and children are being slaughtered by handguns in the streets every day and yet our outrage seems to be almost entirely directed at high profile mass shooters using AR style rifles.

We need to come together to address the root causes of crime and violence: poverty and wealth disparity, systemic racism and oppression, chronic addiction, the war on drugs, lack of mental health care, and an underfunded education system.

And if we want to talk about gun control, for gods sake talk about handguns before we talk about anything else.

I am not saying that to trivialize the deaths of those murdered by long guns, merely to point out that we have a much bigger problem and the focus on so-called assault rifles is misplaced at best and a disingenuous distraction at worst.

It just seems so transparent to me: the focus is on “assault rifles” because the victims of mass shootings trend white and tend to be random. The overwhelming majority of gun violence victims are persons of color, are not random, and are killed with handguns.