[Radar Chief]

Originally Posted by Direckshun

I know states with more guns tend to have more female deaths. I know 83 women are killed for every woman who uses a gun in self defense. I know guns generally make domestic violence worse because batterers who own guns are likely to use them.

I know that the rate of gun ownership correlates positively with incidence of homicide. When guns are prevalent, there are significantly more homicides. I know that having a gun in the home increases the odds of a violent death.

I know that states with more gun control have less gun deaths when you include suicides, and states with weaker gun control laws have more gun violence. I know there's some evidence that guns are used far more frequently to threaten than protect.

And I know that mass shootings with assault weapons tend to be deadlier. And "Right To Carry" laws increase aggravated assault.

I also know that gun rights advocates are terrified of researching gun violence, and that most of them think they're less dangerous than video games. But yeah, I'm the person who's just believing what I'm told.

Fancy cut-n-paste, I’m sure the girls at HuffPo are giving you a round of high-fives as I type this response. But, um, if you’re looking to prove you know something about guns, how they function and what makes one different from another, and that you aren’t just repeating rhetoric from anti-gun partisans posting links to their sites is doing the exact opposite.
It is funny though that you spent all that time digging up those links yet still refuse to answer one very simple question that you’ve been dodging since the Sandy Hook tragedy.

Originally Posted by Radar Chief

Name for me exactly what functional difference there is between an assault rifle and any other semi-automatic rifle of the same caliber that makes them "so much more dangerous".

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