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EX500rider

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44. I just don't see the point

Mon Nov 29, 2021, 05:38 PM

Nov 2021

There are 17 people killed by handguns for everyone shot by a rifle, all rifles not just AR/AK's
And I don't think it would help much with mass shootings either, pistols will work just as well:
The Virginia Tech shooting was a spree shooting that occurred on April 16, 2007, comprising two attacks on the campus of the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in Blacksburg, Virginia, United States. Seung-Hui Cho, an undergraduate student at the university and a U.S. resident of South Korean descent, killed 32 people and wounded 17 others with two semi-automatic pistols.

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I just don't see the point EX500rider Nov 2021 #44

Handguns are by far the most common murder weapon used in the United States EX500rider Nov 2021 #43

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He's been trending Republican, ever since he started talking politics. Paladin Nov 2021 #21

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See #22 below left-of-center2012 Nov 2021 #25

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