Saturday, March 31, 2018

FACT CHECK: ARE MORE PEOPLE KILLED BY ‘HAMMERS AND FISTS’ THAN AR-15S?

"Parkland student Kyle Kashuv claimed in a Monday tweet that “hammers and fists” are used to kill more people than AR-15s.
“The AR-15 … is used less times per year to kill people than hammers and fists are used to kill people,” he tweeted.
Verdict: True
The FBI reports that more people are killed each year using blunt objects or “personal weapons” (fists, hands or feet) than are killed using rifles. Rifles are used in a small fraction of gun homicides...
But rifles are used in only a small fraction of murders committed using firearms..."

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