FBI: You are more likely to be killed by hands and feet than by a shotgun or rifle

[Metz]

The FBI has released their 2007-2011 “Murder Victims by Weapon” report. The results are contradictory to anti-gun industry claims that relaxing the ban on assault weapons will cause more crime.

The report indicates you are more likely to be killed by hands or feet than by a rifle or shotgun.

Since 2007 there has been a 16.2% decline in murders committed with personal weapons which are defined as “hands, fists, feet etc.” The number of murders of this type in 2011 totaled 728.

While gun ownership has dramatically increased since 2007, murders for both the shotgun and rifle categories have seen declines faster than the rate of personal weapons related crime.

The rates of decline for the shotgun and rifle categories are 22.1% and 28.7% respectively. In 2011 there were 356 shotgun murders and 323 rifle murders for a total of 679 murders.

Total murders by hands and feet in 2011 exceed the total number of murders by shotgun and rifle. Does that mean gloves and shoes need regulation because they are concealing deadly weapons? No, but it does mean that there is no need for any further regulation of long arms.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/11/27/fb...#ixzz2E67bfRY5

[jeep]

Now the antis will go after my hands ,in their heads if i dont have hands i cant hold a firearm and therefore they get guns out of peoples hands

[Steve_NEPhila]

Now the antis will go after my hands ,in their heads if i dont have hands i cant hold a firearm and therefore they get guns out of peoples hands

Nope, your hands are safe. The libs would never dream of confiscating your hands, despite how dangerousn they are. If they did confiscate your hands you would not be able to go to work and earn the privilige to pay tax money to support the welfare state.

[NathanB]

only thing wrong with that is they are not including handguns.

[Metz]

only thing wrong with that is they are not including handguns.

Handgun is merely a weapon of opportunity. Not different from a baseball bat or screwdriver. Civilians can not possess handguns in Russia. Yet, the murder rate in Russia is 2.5 greater per capita than in the US. Criminal manage to kill another human beings without handguns just fine.

Do you know how many baseball bats are being sold in russia per year? Half a million. Do you know how many baseballs they sell per year? Two dozen

[pacpiper]

Nope, your hands are safe. The libs would never dream of confiscating your hands, despite how dangerousn they are. If they did confiscate your hands you would not be able to go to work and earn the privilige to pay tax money to support the welfare state.

Good point!!!!

[Brick]

OK, so much for rifles and shotguns. What's the story with handguns? Might as well make the information complete!

[jw34]

We are actually more likely to die in a car accident, so maybe they'll ban all vehicles to prevent further auto violence.

[brsims]

We could also die from drowning...there go the pools.

Wait, we could potentially die from choking! Quick, ban food and drink!

Could get a disease and die from sex, so geuss what? We ban sex!

Great, now we've banned survival and reproduction! Humanity becomes extinct within a generation! And then.......nobody dies.

Of course, nobody dies because there's noone alive in the first place....but hey, what does logic have to do with saving us from ourselves?