• borari@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    3 months ago

    We’re more familiar with 5.56x45mm thanks to all our school shootings thank you very much.

    • BalooWasWahoo@links.hackliberty.org
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      3 months ago

      I would make a bet that more mass shootings are done with 9mm. Depending on which shootings they consider ‘mass’ I see estimates from 60-80% for handgun usage. I’m sure the cheap .22 is a large number, but 9mm is probably right up there. There is a large bias in reporting the school shootings and shootings involving rifles by the media. They almost ignore the others.