Many of the most deadly mass shootings, such as those in Las Vegas, Orlando, Sutherland Springs, Newtown, El Paso and elsewhere, involved one or more military-style assault weapons.An analysis by the Rockefeller Institute of Government found that mass shootings that involved assault rifles resulted in an average of 5.2 deaths and 7.6 injuries, while mass shootings that didn’t involve assault rifles resulted in an average of 2.9 deaths and 3.2 injuries.
NRA myth: The NRA says guns don’t kill people, people kill people.įact: People kill more people with assault rifles equipped with high-capacity magazines than they kill with other weapons. No one law will solve this problem, but we have to start taking action now to dry up the supply of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.” “The simple fact is that if these high-powered, military-style weapons weren’t so easily available, we’d have fewer massacres, and shootings would be less deadly. But guns kill more people than other weapons, and military-style assault weapons are the deadliest and the choice of individuals who want to shoot a large number of people,” Feinstein said. “The NRA likes to say guns don’t kill people, people kill people. Washington-As the House Judiciary Committee prepares to hold a hearing on federal Assault Weapons Ban legislation on September 25, Senate Judiciary Committee Ranking Member Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) released the following statement on misinformation spread by the National Rifle Association:
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