With the assault weapons ban again being discussed in the presidential campaign (e.g., Mitt Romney), there are two facts to consider.
1) Here is a youtube presentation about how quickly guns can be reloaded.
2) As an empirical fact the reloading rate for guns is largely irrelevant because the number of murders each year involving more than a few bullets fired is extremely rare.
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ReplyDelete2) As an empirical fact the reloading rate for guns is largely irrelevant because the number of murders each year involving more than a few bullets fired is extremely rare.
Got data?
Dear Nimrod45:
ReplyDeleteSorry, I don't have the data handy, but I have seen it before. The number of times in a year when the number of bullets fired from a gun in the commission of a crime could be counted on one's hands.
IIRC, it was from an FBI study.
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