The
President is now using an executive order to attempt a back door method of gun
control by banning "green tipped" .223 bullets commonly used in the
AR-15 rifles for target practice. His reasoning is that there have been
variations of the AR created recently which are pistol versions of the firearm,
that these "pistols" fire the Green tipped bullets which are
"armor piercing" and will penetrate police body armor killing cops.
As any AR-15 target shooter knows, the Green tip signifies that the bullet is
62 grains rather than the lower weight 55 grain version. These bullets are lead filled and not of the
solid core, armor piercing variety as claimed by the President. Further, every high powered handgun or long
gun (rifle) is capable of piercing most of the lower grade types of body armor
worn by police while on every day patrol.
This is just another example of the most outrageous of lies being fed to the
pulp fiction supporters of President Obama. IE...those who are so willing to
accept anything he says without another thought that they become zombies to his
anti-American agenda.
Let's examine the facts of Obama's claim...Police officer murders. The best
method of examining this claim is to review the actual number of police officer
murders. We can then review the actual
ability of pretty much any centerfire rifle and even most high powered handguns
to shoot through soft body armor generally worn by police.
The best resource for understanding the threat to police officers is the annual
FBI report on Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted. A look that this
report shows that in 2013 (the most recent data available), 27 police officers
were murdered in the United States with firearms. Of those, the table of types
of weapon used shows that ALL RIFLES
COMBINED accounted for 5 murders. Eighteen officers were murdered with
handguns, and three with shotguns. In the other case the type of firearm was
not listed.
Of the five officers murdered with rifles, two were murdered with .223 rifles
of any type.
Table 41 of the report reveals exactly zero deaths occurred in 2013 because the
victim's body armor was penetrated. To reiterate, not a single officer died in
2013 from having her/his vest penetrated by any caliber firearm. Regardless of
the fact that the vast majority of officers wear Class III or lower grade body
armor which won’t stop a bullet fired at close range from a large caliber
handgun.
In fact, the same table shows that only 3 officers have been killed since 2004
by any .223 or 5.56x45mm round penetrating any type of vest. One death occurred
in 2004, one in 2008, and one in 2011. There is no indication that any of those
involved M855 or higher than class III, rifle-resistant armor. During the same period
between 2004 and 2013, 7 police were murdered through their vests from hunting
caliber rifle shots (.30-30 Winchester, 7mm, .308, or .30-06), 5 were murdered
through their vests using 7.62x39mm the caliber used in the AK-47 Russian
military rifle, and 385 were murdered with ordinary pistols and revolvers, almost
all of which involved hits to unprotected areas of police who were not wearing
body armor.
After actually analyzing the data, it is obvious that the number of annual
police officer deaths that would be averted by banning M855 "Green
Tipped" ammo is zero. The .223 round is rarely used to murder police
officers, and in the rare event it is, it rarely involves vest penetration,
ie... where the body armor of any kind is worn.
The consideration is to look at murder in general. The best source for this
information is the FBI Uniform Crime Reports, particularly Table 20, Murder by
State and Type of Weapon. According to the UCR, there were 12,253 murders
reported to the FBI in 2013 across the entire United States. According to Table
20, all rifles combined accounted for 285 of these murders. That is less than
3% of the total number of murders, and it includes all the cops murdered. It also includes all the murders committed
with the AR-15 type rifles as a part of the whole. So considering that the number of police
officers murdered by a rifle is a subset of the 3% of those murdered by rifle
and that the AR-15 type rifle is a subset of the number of murders by rifle and
that the number of AR-15 rifles firing “green tipped” bullets at during the commission
of a police homicide is a subset of the police killed by AR-15 type firearms
and we then apply this small subset to Obamas claim of AR-15 pistol conversions
being used to kill cops, the odds of a police officer being killed by a “Green
Tipped” .223 bullet shot from an AR-15 type firearm converted to a pistol are
about as long as that same police officer winning the Powerball lottery.
Bottom line, this is just another case of an outlaw president believing he is
above the law and pushing his illegal usurpation of his office to the
extreme. If we, the American people don't push back in the most strenuous
terms, he will continue to take our freedom until we have none left. At least some in
the legislature understand this and are standing up for the Patriots, the rule
of law and the good of America!
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