frodo
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I was told the AR 15 is the ''weapon of choice'' for mass shooters
I am not really into the AR platform, I like the AK..so i started digging
the farther I dug, the more i found that an ar is NOT the favorite weapon of mass shooters, a hand gun is
i went back to 2010,,--present
,,from 2010 to present 53 mass shootings
here is the total # of guns and type used
66 hand gun, 5 shotgun, 26 rifle
27 shootings used a hand gun only
5 shootings used a rifle only
1 shooting used a shot gun only
as you can see, hand guns are used 5 as much as rifles
I received my data using this site, i only used one site
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2011_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
so the question remains to be asked, why, are rifles being targeted as the ''weapon of choice'' for mass shootings when that is clearly not so, the hand gun is the weapon of choice
I am not really into the AR platform, I like the AK..so i started digging
the farther I dug, the more i found that an ar is NOT the favorite weapon of mass shooters, a hand gun is
i went back to 2010,,--present
,,from 2010 to present 53 mass shootings
here is the total # of guns and type used
66 hand gun, 5 shotgun, 26 rifle
27 shootings used a hand gun only
5 shootings used a rifle only
1 shooting used a shot gun only
as you can see, hand guns are used 5 as much as rifles
I received my data using this site, i only used one site
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:2011_mass_shootings_in_the_United_States
so the question remains to be asked, why, are rifles being targeted as the ''weapon of choice'' for mass shootings when that is clearly not so, the hand gun is the weapon of choice
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