The FBI also list 403 in 2017. That’s a drop of 106.
We’re talking about 297 total deaths for the entire year of 2018 in a nation of 326 million people. This is literally less than one person per million.
Furthermore, the AR15 makes up about 20% of all rifles, this comes out to about 59 total.
But wait, the media has been going off about how the AR15 is killing thousands in mass shootings like every other day.
Now answer this, either the FBI is lying, or the media is about all the mass shootings due to the AR15. Is it possible you’ve been lied too?
Any effective propaganda has to have some basis in reality (a sprinkling of facts). They just include what few facts they think will get lost in the jumble, or that they think they can twist to support their argument, but if you dig enough, you can find those facts in their statements.
Not to play the devils advocate, but to be a bit more fair. I would bet the “firearms type unknown” category( almost 3000 non- categorized firearm deaths) would have to include at least %20 AR15 variants, and could be up to 50% long gun conversions. Especially with sawed off is a part of pulp culture.
Still even if figuring in those, it does not come close to the Medias portrayal of “assault rifles”.
You cannot guess with data. You go with facts and the facts say 297 deaths from rifles. The moment you interpret or guess with data the numbers become irrelevant.
I agree, I would rather stick with firm numbers. I’m not sure how the unknown is categorized. What is considered an unknown, does the cop look and say, I don’t know, or was the type not included in the official police report. If that’s the case, I would have to guess, every mass shooting is going to include a type in the report, they know ever aspect is going to be looked at under a microscope.
What I find kind of funny about this is that I am old enough to remember adults bad-mouthing the M-16 as a “mouse gun” and the “M” stood for “Mattel”. That it was incapable of warfare because it was so small and underpowered; some even saying at least the .30 Carbine was less prone to jams and fouling.
But that was a generation that used .30-06 and .50 BMG.