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   Written by on August 18, 2016 at 10:35 am

Clinton Shooting an Innocent Party

As part of her campaign platform, Hillary Clinton has vowed to take down the NRA (as if they are a subset of ISIS) and pledged to reintroduce the Assault Weapons ban, “to make America safe”! Democrats (in general) and Hillary (in particular) have an egregious agenda to assault the 2nd Amendment that is easily proven. Pull up the Bureau of Statistics on line. Go to, “Deaths by Firearms” in America and see a period between 2006 and 2010 where data was collected.

 Handguns annually take 12,996 to 15,087 lives from accidents, suicide, criminal acts, justifiable homicides etc. Shotguns take from 373 to 490 lives a year. Knives take 1,704 to 1, 888 lives. Blunt force trauma takes 540 to 623 lives. Death by hands and feet take 745 to 875 lives a year. Rifles are used the least accounting for 351 to 480 deaths a year. This (lowest) figure takes in ALL rifles, … not just Assault Rifles.

 There was no statistic had on AR-15 type rifles. One is left to assume that but a fraction of deaths from the over-all, “deaths by rifle” are caused by Assault Rifles. Such a small number die each year in America from Assault Weapons that is was not worth putting into a statistic category of its own! Chalk up another Hillary lie and to the Democratic party!

Karl Schmidt

Farmville, Va.

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