r/benshapiro • u/American_Streamer "Here's the reality" • Sep 01 '22

"You conservatives are powerless. Your AR-15s mean nothing. You'd need a squadron of F-15s to fight back against the government. Even then you'd certainly lose. Also, you nearly overthrew the republic on January 6th." - Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., #46 Other Daily Wire Members

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u/starstriker0404 Sep 02 '22

Over 50% of all mass shootings are committed with a handgun, rifles siting at 13%. Any other stupid comments?

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u/studio28 Sep 02 '22

The average death per case with handguns only have half the number of the average casualties. What you bring up isn’t exactly relevant. I say again, it’s because they’re good for killing elementary students.

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u/starstriker0404 Sep 02 '22

?? So are rocks and bad nannies. Even if you some how managed to get every gun in the country, what’s that going to solve. The assassination of Shinso Abe already proved that even in a “gun free” country, you can never get rid of fire arms. And gotta love the appeal to ethos.

Stats show that this wouldn’t help anyth—

BUT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CHILDREN!

That’s you. Kinda ironic that you’re using children as a shield while talking about school shootings.

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Also source on that handgun fact?

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u/studio28 Sep 02 '22

Here’s a an article that matches your query:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/data-confirm-semiautomatic-rifles-linked-to-more-deaths-injuries/

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u/starstriker0404 Sep 02 '22

Interesting… definitely warrants looking into. Coulple concerns though.

  1. ScientificAmerica has a known bias
  2. Dina Fine Maron the author, is a wildlife crime expert… talking about guns, and is an avid DNC supporter, so maybe a little biased
  3. And slightly picky but this is also a .com, so not the best type of site to use as a source.

Honestly though thanks for actually backing up your claim. Now I’m going to go through all of these studies mentioned and see if they actually reflect what the author was saying.

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u/CaliforniaWhiteBoy Sep 02 '22

Pop Quiz: how fast does the bullet of an AR-15 travel compared to other rifles?