{"id":92090,"date":"2023-04-22T06:33:59","date_gmt":"2023-04-22T11:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92090"},"modified":"2023-04-22T06:33:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-22T11:33:59","slug":"92090","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92090","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/kevindowneyjr\/2023\/04\/21\/abc-news-accidently-admits-ar-15s-arent-as-dangerous-as-the-dems-pretend-they-are-n1689025\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ABC News Accidently Admits AR-15s Aren&#8217;t as Dangerous as the Dems Pretend They Are<\/a><\/p>\n<section><\/section>\n<section>In their latest hit piece on Long Island\u2019s GOP Rep. George Santos, ABC News let a little fact slip about the AR-15.<br \/>\nSantos co-sponsored a bill to name the AR-15 the \u201cnational gun of the United States.\u201d ABC News stroked an article about\u00a0voters\u00a0protesters showing up at Santos\u2019s office to protest the bill.<\/section>\n<section><\/section>\n<section class=\"post-header my-md-3\">The ABC\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/abc7ny.com\/george-santos-ar-15-gun-legislation-laws\/13117725\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">article<\/a>\u00a0states, \u201cResearch\u00a0shows an AR-15-style rifle has been used to kill at least 226 people in mass shootings since 2012.\u201d<\/section>\n<section class=\"post-body\">If my calculator is accurate, that\u2019s roughly 22.6 people per year, or 1.8 people per month, who have been killed by AR-15s in mass shootings.Let me open with this: one death is too many.<\/section>\n<p>And now for my question: why do lefty jackpuddings regurgitate their avocado toast over AR-15s when so few people are killed by them?<\/p>\n<h5>Perspective<\/h5>\n<p>Let\u2019s take a look at ways in which more Americans die every year than by AR-15s used in mass shootings:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Twenty-eight people are killed every year by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/disasters\/lightning\/victimdata\/infographic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lightning<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Roughly 2,167 Americans die annually from\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/weird-causes-of-death-2016-7?op=1#w14-caught-crushed-jammed-or-pinched-in-or-between-objects--1842-deaths-4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">constipation<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>On average, 951 people are killed by their\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/weird-causes-of-death-2016-7?op=1#w28-contact-with-powered-lawnmower--951-deaths-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">lawnmowers<\/a>\u00a0while another 4,193 are killed by\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/weird-causes-of-death-2016-7?op=1#w75-accidental-suffocation-and-strangulation-in-bed--10206-deaths-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">farm tractors<\/a>\u00a0and other agricultural equipment.<\/li>\n<li>Murderous\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicaldaily.com\/abcs-death-10-unexpected-ways-die-everyday-life-282640\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">toasters<\/a>\u00a0kill 45 people per year.<\/li>\n<li>Eleven teenagers\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/carsurance.net\/insights\/texting-and-driving-statistics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">die every day<\/a>\u00a0while texting and driving.<\/li>\n<li>An estimated 40 people die every year while\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/skatetownguide.com\/how-many-skateboarders-die-a-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">skateboarding<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Roughly 10,206 are\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/weird-causes-of-death-2016-7?op=1#w75-accidental-suffocation-and-strangulation-in-bed--10206-deaths-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">accidentally strangled<\/a>\u00a0to death while they sleep, and for those who survive the night, another\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/weird-causes-of-death-2016-7?op=1#w75-accidental-suffocation-and-strangulation-in-bed--10206-deaths-7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">10,386 will die<\/a>\u00a0every year falling out of bed.<\/li>\n<li>As\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ucr.fbi.gov\/crime-in-the-u.s\/2019\/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019\/tables\/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">per the FBI<\/a>, rifles of every variation \u2014 including but not limited to the scary AR-15 \u2014 killed 215 Americans in 2019. But another 1,533 were killed by knives, and 651 people were beaten to death by hands, fists, feet, etc.<\/li>\n<li>In 2015, 5,051 people\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/books\/NBK499941\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">choked to death<\/a>\u00a0while eating.<\/li>\n<li>Americans average 62 deaths per year by bees, wasps, and hornets.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h5>What Have We Learned?<\/h5>\n<p>We\u2019ve learned that if you want to cut down on needless deaths, you\u2019re better off handing out prune juice than trying to purloin AR-15s, as we Americans are roughly 10 times more likely to die as Elvis did \u2014 on the toilet \u2014 than by an AR-15 in a mass shooting. We\u2019re 50 times more likely to be beaten to death. We\u2019re roughly 1,000 times more likely to be killed \u2014 either by accidental strangulation or falling \u2014 from our beds than by an AR-15.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BONUS LESSON:<\/strong>\u00a0None of this info will help you in a debate against your liberal sister-in-law and her pink-haired, gender-uncertain boy?-partner freakshow because facts are useless against the bolshies who want us defenseless.<\/p>\n<p>So why do the apparatchiks on the left want your A5-15? The same reason you want to keep it \u2014 it\u2019s the best gun available to fight tyranny \u2014 either foreign or domestic. And with the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/pjmedia.com\/news-and-politics\/catherinesalgado\/2023\/04\/20\/military-invasion-hundreds-of-young-chinese-men-entering-u-s-open-border-n1688755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">terrifying number of military-aged Chinese men crossing the southern border<\/a>, we might find ourselves fighting either, or both.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ABC News Accidently Admits AR-15s Aren&#8217;t as Dangerous as the Dems Pretend They Are In their latest hit piece on Long Island\u2019s GOP Rep. George Santos, ABC News let a little fact slip about the AR-15. Santos co-sponsored a bill to name the AR-15 the \u201cnational gun of the United States.\u201d ABC News stroked an &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=92090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-92090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=92090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":92091,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92090\/revisions\/92091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=92090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=92090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=92090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}