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Gun Control & RKBA

benEzra

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6. So, how many lives per year would be saved by outlawing rifle handgrips that stick out?

Reply to Jerry442 (Reply #3)

Mon Dec 21, 2015, 08:36 PM

Dec 2015

Answer: zero.

But it's not about saving lives, it's about social signaling and sticking it to the "other", which is why outlawing rifle handgrips and whatnot has been Priority #1 of the gun prohibition lobby for more than a quarter-century now. Ignorance and fear, like I said.

For perspective, people have been murdered in Baltimore alone this year than have been murdered using *all* rifles in every city, town, village, and home in the entire United States.

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