Plenty of people use them just for the fun of plinking. Again, if we had just the deaths from Assault guns, we would have a lower firearms death rate than Australia.

This! Everyone gets caught up with the Assault Weapons, but I tell people all the time: the real killers are handguns. The overwhelming number of deaths are from handguns. Even in the Oregon shooting: people made a big deal that he had a rifle. In fact, the people he killed he all shot with a handgun. The gun used to…

It’s also worth noting: for all the hand wringing about assault weapons, they actually are not used that often. In 2012 of the 10,000 firearms homicides, 6700 were handguns, 400 were shotguns, and 100 were rifles (including assault rifles). The rest were “undetermined” by the FBI, but just following the pattern, if we…