Why ban the guns that kill the least amount of people, and ignore the ones that kill the most?

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3. Furthermore,

It is much harder to have an accidental shooting with a rifle than with a handgun. Children have a harder time lifting a rifle (even a plastic AR-15), and it is difficult to point it at yourself and pull the trigger accidentally.

The one advantage to going after rifles like the AR-15 is that they tend to be loaded with larger magazines and thus a person can cause more damage with fewer reloads. However, the real way to combat this is to restrict magazine size. If someone says "there are a billion 30 round AR magazines out there, no way we can collect them", just keep in mind that most law-abiding owners will turn them in, since large mags really are not needed (especially if they get to keep their rifles).