Went digging through the FBI’s Uniform Crime Reports archives to make this chart. Banning “assault rifles” is not going to significantly reduce murders. If you want to fix that problem by regulating firearms, you’ll have to look at handguns.

This post by Jason Alexander on public ownership of firearms has been making the rounds on my Twitter feed lately, and I need to interject some facts into the discussion.

Despite these massacres recurring and despite the 100,000 Americans that die every year due to domestic gun violence - these people see no value to even considering some kind of control as to what kinds of weapons are put in civilian hands.