On Thursday, April 9, 2015 at 1:58:36 AM UTC-4, jps wrote:

The reason why guns are killing more people than cars in these states
is due to two simultaneous trends. The first is gun nuts have
undermined sensible government efforts to require life-saving
controls, the study said, such as features that prevent guns from
mistakenly firing to limiting firearm accesss to people with violent
histories. The second trend is that manufacturers have militarized the
domestic market in recent years with semi-automatic features that were
never on traditional sporting and hunting arms.

Any article that uses the term "gun nut" and make a false assertion that some mystical "semi-automatic features" are responsible for firearm deaths in these states is laughable at best. Obviously written by an anti-gun nut.

"Though it is one of the most popular rifles sold to civilians, the AR-15 is rarely used in crimes, presumably because it's not readily concealed. The most recent FBI figures show just 358 of the 8,775 murders by firearm in 2010 involved rifles *of any type*. By comparison, 745 people were beaten to death with only hands that year, but no one has called for outlawing fists.."

Read mo http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/jul/23/dispelling-gun-myths/#ixzz3Wp4KQb2S