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Episode 101: Fear Fuels Faulty Reasoning Regarding Rifles

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The Rise of Assault Weapons

The number of violent crimes in this country is down either 50% or 75% depending on which data set you're looking at. The good news isn't restricted to violent crime, it also applies to property crime. But most people when they say things like we should have an assault weapons ban, think in the back of their mind that what they're really talking about are machine guns," he says.

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