NEW: @cbsnews polling shows majority of respondents supporting a nationwide ban on AR-15 semi-automatics pic.twitter.com/PHHejnWB4F
— Scott MacFarlane (@MacFarlaneNews) April 16, 2023
After each mass shooting, the public asks, “How did we get here?”
— ProPublica (@propublica) April 28, 2024
The real answer goes beyond NRA lobbyists and Second Amendment zealots.
It lies in large measure with the strategies of firearms executives like Richard Dyke. https://t.co/7qdRC2LQBj
There are as many as 44 million AR-15–style rifles in circulation in the United States today, nearly a tenth of the total 393 million guns in private hands in this country. https://t.co/u0aP6kblTu
— The New Republic (@newrepublic) October 23, 2023
NRA: “MILLIONS … use AR-15s to defend themselves and their families.”
— Louis Klarevas (@Klarevas) August 27, 2023
ALSO NRA: We have only been able to identify SIX incidents of self-defense involving an AR-15 since 1993, one of which was against a wild boar attack.
See:https://t.co/YOhDleITJg https://t.co/Azw2ixiAxe
The AR-15 semi-automatic is one of the most popular guns in the U.S. — and one of the most reviled.@NBCNews takes a look at what we know about these weapon’s use in mass shootings and which jurisdictions have banned its sale. https://t.co/YPEmwgHLEj
— NBC News (@NBCNews) May 16, 2023
While Trump and others push the same old lies about gun violence at the NRA convention in Indianapolis, here's the grim reality of AR-15s and mass shootings https://t.co/i7fHVgJXTF
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) April 15, 2023
Sad! 