Here's the Chart That Supporters of a Federal Assault Weapons Ban Won't Want to See

While anti-gun advocates argue that banning semi-automatic rifles, like the popular AR-15, will help decrease shooting deaths in the U.S., FBI data suggests that the average American is more likely to be killed by "hands, fists" or "feet" than a rifle. The anti-gun crowd has intensified its calls for a federal assault weapons ban following the tragedy in Newtown, Conn. last week.

"Yes, massacres tend to be done with weapons like this. But not most gun murders in the U.S.: a vast majority of gun murders in the U.S. are committed with a handgun," The Washington Examiner's Timothy Carney writes.

(Source: Washington Examiner/FBI)

As you can see in the chart pictured above, the vast majority of murders in the U.S. are indeed committed with handguns, not rifles. More people were killed with shotguns (373), knifes/blades (1,704) and "other weapon[s]" (1,772) more often than they were with rifles in 2010, which were reportedly used in 358 murders that year.

Whether it's a knife, gun or a fist, will a "ban" of any kind sway a deranged individual's decision to take human lives?

(H/T: Weasel Zippers)