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2023-05-08 20:36:45 UTC - NOT_HELPFUL
Rated by Participant: A45F48269B5FDD3C28860970D9F6B12FFBD1CC598ABB0E6BB51B65BFCC208AB4
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A reader of Geraldo's tweet would be led to believe that AR-15 style weapons are used in a majority of murders in the US, whereas rifles (of which AR-15s are a subset) are only actually used for approximately 3% of US murders. Pew data: https://www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/2023/04/26/what-the-data-says-about-gun-deaths-in-the-u-s/ FBI data: https://ucr.fbi.gov/crime-in-the-u.s/2019/crime-in-the-u.s.-2019/tables/expanded-homicide-data-table-8.xls
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