Illinois Republican Legislator Compares Gun Regulations To Castration

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46. Assuming ALL the "blunt object" deaths were hammers...

http://www2.fbi.gov/ucr/cius2009/offenses/expanded_information/data/shrtable_08.html

Let's play around with this...

In 2009, three times as many people were killed by "firearms, type not stated" than were killed by "blunt objects." Reality says the "blunt objects" were more than likely beer bottles, pieces of 2x4, and baseball bats rather than hammers; did you ever try to hit a moving object like a person with a hammer?

If all the "firearms, type not stated" were rifles, four times as many people were killed by rifles than by "hammers." In reality, most "firearms, type not stated" were pistols because pistols are so easy to conceal.

As someone else on this thread has pointed out, few to no people buy hammers with the intent of killing people. (Baseball bats are purchased with the intent of hitting baseballs, unless you play for the Rockies or the Mariners but we won't get into that...) Nearly everyone who buys a gun does so with the intent of killing with it...whether it's deer, bears, intruders, criminals, enemy soldiers, people fuckin' with the dope trade, cops, their husband...the number of people who buy guns specifically to compete in shooting contests is extremely low, and their guns are very complex.