ASSAULT GUNS –AMERICAN GUN CASUALTIES

Assault guns fire 500 rounds per minute and were invented for use by soldiers in combat.  Research and development of assault guns began about 1910 and the last major step in their development was when the U.S Army adopted the AR-15 Colt M-16 in the late 1950’s.

The NRA gun lobby would have you believe Americans cannot protect their families and their homes if you ban AR-15 assault guns from civilian ownership.  If that is true how did Americans protect their families and homes for over 100 years before the AR-15 was invented?

The rate of gun ownership in the U.S is 89 per 100.   No other country has a rate close to that.  In Austria, France, Germany, Norway and Sweden the rate is 30-32 guns per 100. The U.S is 5% of the world population and owns, 50% of the world’s guns (300 million). 50 percent of adult Republicans and 22 per cent of adult Democrats owned guns in 2010.

In the U.S the rate of gun homicides per year is 3.2 per 100,000 residents. In Switzerland the rate is 0.5 per 100,000, Ireland and Canada 0.4, Sweden and Finland 0.2, New Zealand Spain and Germany 0.1 and 0 in Japan.

Is it just coincidental that Americans own three times more guns and have three times more gun homicides than people living in other countries or could a reasonable person  conclude three times more guns result in three times more gun homicides?

Are Americans three times more likely to be killers than people in other countries?

From 1979 to 1997 651,697 Americans were killed with guns---more than all the soldiers killed in all of America’s wars.  

Parents, teachers, rabbis, priests, coaches and everyone shocked by the number of school children killed with guns which fire 500 rounds a minute should unite and ban civilian ownership of such guns thereby reducing the number of guns available to perpetuate these senseless killings.

Ask your Congressman to stand up to the NRA and vote to ban assault guns from civilian ownership and save lives.