Characteristics of the Shooter
Shooter Profile
Single shooters conducted all attacks between 2000 to 2012 that the authors identified. Shooters did not fit a specific profile. While most (94 percent) of the shooters were male, some were female. They also came from different racial and ethnic categories. The youngest shooter in the data set was 13, and the oldest was 88. Again, no clear profile based upon the demographics of the shooter was observed.
Shooter Equipment
Figure 6 shows the most powerful weapon that shooters brought to the attack site. In about 60 percent of the attacks the most powerful weapon used was a pistol. In 8 percent it was a shotgun, and the most powerful weapon used was a rifle in about 25 percent of the cases. Shooters brought multiple weapons in about one-third of the attacks.
FBI â€" Active Shooter Events from 2000 to 2012
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According to MJ 67 total mass shootings since 1982. with approx. 550 fatalities ( my count using above chart)
According to FBI 60% were done with a handgun 40% rifle shotgun ( I counted only 21 times rifles used just over 25%)or 137.5 people were killed using rifles in mass shootings in the last 3 decades.
Even if we double the number to 50% we get 225 people killed by rifles in mass shootings in the last 30 years
Coming to the conclusion that rifles must be banned based on the above data is absurd beyond reason .
I cannot except stupidity as a valid argument for supporting such gun laws any longer . Any staffer could provide even better data in a few moments of searching the net.
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