• Landsharkgun@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    You can google it, you know. source 1

    Let’s see…in 2021, depending on who you ask, between 103 people (FBI) and 700 people (Gun Violence Archive) died in mass shootings. This is as compared to 48,830 deaths from firearms total. So ~1.5%.

    As for handguns: “In 2020, the most recent year for which the FBI has published data, handguns were involved in 59% of the 13,620 U.S. gun murders and non-negligent manslaughters for which data is available. Rifles – the category that includes guns sometimes referred to as “assault weapons” – were involved in 3% of firearm murders. Shotguns were involved in 1%.”

    So above poster was a bit low for purely murders. However, mix in the fact that about 54% of gun deaths are suicides (overwhelming handguns), and the total percentage of gun deaths attributable to handguns is about 80%.

    • PoliticalAgitator@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      I’ve already agreed to ban handguns too so don’t feel obligated to post statistics that were next to the statistics I actually challenged.