The NRA has its facts page and so does the Brady Bunch...
http://www.bradycampaign.org/issues/gvstats/
Now, why would a Pro Bill of Rights person, like myself, go to the oppositions webpage? Simple, know you enemy. As with any war, intel is the key. How can you wage wage with something when you do not know its abilities, strengths, or weaknesses?
For example, "In 2005, 30,694 people in the United States died from firearm-related deaths – 12,352 were murdered; 17,002 killed themselves; 789 were accidents; 330 died by police intervention, and in 221, the intent was unknown." What they fail to point out is that all this happened during the Assault Weapons Ban.Hi Cap Ban period they helped to promote and that these numbers have been decreasing steadily for the past twenty plus years.
http://www.bradycampaign.org/issues/assaultweapons/
"The Federal Assault Weapons Act, banning the sale of semiautomatic military-style assault weapons, was passed as part of the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994. President Clinton signed it into law on September 13, 1994.
The Act led to a dramatic decline in the incidence of assault weapons traced to crime. In the five-year period (1990-1994) before enactment of the Assault Weapons Act, assault weapons named in the Act constituted 4.82% of Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) crime gun traces nationwide. After the law’s enactment, however, these assault weapons made up only 1.61% of the guns ATF had traced to crime - a drop of 66% from the pre-ban rate."
Assault weapons have never been a major part of crime in the U.S. and even they admit there was only 1.61% of all crimes that had anything to do with an assault weapon...and if you actually looked at the weapons in question and compared those to the real definition of an assault weapon, the percentage would drop a lot more. I am very suspicious of these statistics since they can be using a Ruger 10-22 with a folding stock and call it an assault weapon because it looks imposing.
Take a look at their site... it's a scary, eye-opening entertainment
