MS>VH> You can find the UCR in any decent library.  As long as the
MS>VH> statistics
MS>VH> have been kept, the homicide rate for long arms (shotguns and rifles,
MS>VH> including "assault weapons") runs about 1/2 to 2/3 the rate of
MS>VH> homicides
MS>VH> with "no weapon at all (hands and feet)" year in and year out.
MS>    Just showing how willing today's "journalists" are to shoot of their
MS>mouths without researching first!
I always say, "Don't ascribe to malice what can be accounted for by
simple incompetence."
But this may be an exception -- it isn't that they don't KNOW the
statistics, it's that the statistics don't fit their political agendas.
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