Quote Originally Posted by freein05 View Post
Here are some statistics from 2011 for those who like to see how many people were killed in the gun capital of the world.

In 2011, guns were used to murder 8,583 people living in the U.S., according to the most recent FBI data available. Among those murdered by guns, there were 565 young people under the age of 18, and 119 children ages 12 or younger -- the latter number nearly equivalent to six Newtown mass shootings. And these figures include only homicides.
Thanks for the HuffPo stuff. No doubt we should try to minimize those, but really, and be honest, how many of those would be affected by an "assault weapons" law?

https://www.ncjrs.gov/pdffiles1/nij/grants/204431.pdf