You know that assualt rifle ban?

New York Post Online Edition: commentary
Maybe we should ban the human hand, if a few automatic weapons should be illegal (according to moronic loudmouths).

N EW YORKERS are at least four times as likely to be punched to death than to be killed with an assault-style rifle, unpublished state crime statistics show.
The eye-opening figures — obtained by The Post from the state Division of Criminal Justice Services — reveal that New Yorkers are also at least twice as likely to be clubbed to death than shot dead by an attacker wielding one of the semi-automatic rifles previously covered by a federal government ban that expired last week.

The most recent statewide statistics — murder-by-weapon-type figures from 2002 — also show that New Yorkers are at least five times as likely to be stabbed to death with a knife than they are to be shot with an assault rifle.

Of 893 murders committed two years ago, just 22 — or slightly over 2 percent — were carried out using some form of rifle, including assault-rifles, the figures show.

In other news, the recently-abandoned assualt weapons ban seems to have very little effect, because it did almost nothing in the first place.


By the way, factcheck.org is a very credible source. Both the Bushites and the Kerry campaign (at least as of my banning from the Kerry forums, hehe) will agree to its accuracy.