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Politics : The Trump Presidency
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To: i-node who wrote (56860)2/18/2018 5:39:05 PM
From: combjelly  Read Replies (2) of 360043
 
You may believe it is true. But, as with so many things, it doesn't make it true.

Now it is true that shooters will sometimes have a shotgun in their assemblage of weapons. Sandy Hook was that way. But they rarely use it. And, in the case of the Naval Yard, the shooter used the shotgun until he nailed a good guy with a gun and became a bad guy with two guns. And stopped using the shotgun.

The number of deaths by shotgun has been far less than the number of deaths by AR-15s and its derivatives since 1989.

Lately, all of the mass shootings have either been a semi-automatic handgun or an AR-15 or derivative. Oddly enough, since the assault weapon ban expired, it has slowly become the weapon of choice. Probably because it racks up the highest body counts. It now seems to be number 1 with a bullet, so to speak.

So it might be true that if you go back a couple of centuries that shotguns were used the most. I have no real idea. But that hasn't been true for decades.
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