Shootings in which at least one perpetrator used a semiautomatic rifle left an average of 4.25 people killed and 5.48 wounded
More people were shot, and more killed, when the perpetrator of an “active shooting” in the US had a semiautomatic rifle, according to a new study of 248 incidents published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study, which examined only a small subset of America’s shootings, found that incidents in which at least one of the perpetrator’s guns was a semiautomatic rifle left an average of 4.25 people killed and 5.48 wounded. Shootings where the perpetrator did not have a semiautomatic rifle, but instead used handguns, shotguns or other types of rifles, left an average of 2.5 people killed and three people wounded.
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