semi automatic weapons should be banned for civilians with exceptions,

oh no oh no no no that figure has ben completely debunked but thanks  for falling right in to a trap that i can debunk!! god you people are so fucking stupid you quote bullshit, does it hurt being tha stupid does it? its killing me, i need another tylonol just to deal with all your stupid 

"Every year, the FBI releases the Uniform Crime Report (UCR), a national set of crime statistics which is compiled from data submitted by the nation’s roughly 18,000 police departments. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the UCR is one of the two official sources, along with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Fatal Injury Reports, from which the nation’s homicide rate is measured. Unlike the FBI, the CDC’s report collects data from death certificates reported by physicians, medical examiners and coroners. Per the UCR, 9,103 murders were committed with firearms in 2015, while the CDC’s figure is significantly higher — 12,979.

For murder data, the FBI figures are broken down by type of weapons used in the following categories: Total firearms; handguns; rifles; shotguns; firearms — type unknown; knives or cutting instruments; other weapons; and hands, fists, feet, et cetera. These figures are provided to the FBI by state agencies that collect encoded crime data from individual police departments.
It’s unlikely that a total of only 374 murders in the U.S. (a figure since revised to 300) were committed with rifles in 2016, given the fact that in more than 4,000 cases the weapon or type of gun was not specified in the UCR. What is clear from the figures, however, is that handguns are by far the most-used murder weapon, probably because they are easier to transport and conceal. Phillip Cook, Terry Sanford Professor Emeritus of Public Policy Studies at Duke University, told us:  https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/four-times-more-stabbed-than-rifles-any-kind/

you are afriad i'm right arent you? arent you? fucking cowardly pussy trangender homo A cognitive bias is a systematic error in thinking that affects the decisions and judgments that people make. Some of these biases are related to memory. The way you remember an event may be biased for a number of reasons and that in turn can lead to biased thinking and decision-making.Sep 7, 2019

And handguns are also easier to defend yourself with because they are portable. 

they should also be banned 3/4 of our homicides would not hapen if we just got rid of handguns https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/four-times-more-stabbed-than-rifles-any-kind/  [H]andguns are used far more often to kill people than are rifles.  Almost all homicides occur away from the perpetrators’ place of residence, suggesting that the gun had to be transported.  Handguns are more convenient to carry and to deploy than are rifles

Broadly speaking, there are simply more handguns in the U.S., according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms’ annual Firearms Commerce in the United States report — the only official source available estimating the number of guns in the U.S. In 2015 more than 4.4 million pistols and revolvers were manufactured domestically versus nearly 3.7 million rifles. In 2016, nearly 3.7 million handguns were imported versus nearly 730,000 rifles. These are the most recent figures available.
The parameters selected for the article appear to be contrived

Based solely on the numbers provided in the UCR, we don’t know definitively how many crimes were committed with which type of weapons in a given year — but we have an overview that shows the vast majority of murders are committed with firearms, regardless of type. However, since 1990, reported violent crime in the United States has been on a downward trend. According to the UCR, there was an uptick in murders by 1,320 crimes from 2015 to 2016 — 1,226 of those due to firearms.
The most recent UCR report, which contains annual homicide figures from 2014 through 2018, can be viewed here. The report features this disclaimer: “NOTE: The Uniform Crime Reporting Technical Refresh enables updating of prior years’ crime data; therefore, data presented in this table may not match previously published data.”

You are wrong once again, sir. UK banned guns and their homicide rates are rising. Knife crime is rising as well. https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/25/homicides-in-england-and-wales-hit-highest-level-in-a-decade

So, should they ban knives? What next, hammers? Obviously, the weapons aren't the problem.

The foolish and baseless assumption that just banning something will automatically solve the problem is laughably false. How about you come back when you have some real points, okay, bud?

they banned handguns in 1997  the homicide rate dropped for 15 years after that The murder rate in England and Wales has fallen to its lowest level in 20 years, with 648 homicides recorded in 2008/09 – 136 fewer than the year before. Home Office statisticians said the drop was "not a blip".https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2009/jul/16/crime-figures-recession-impact that was ten years ago 

after labour left office in 2010 conservative cut police bdgets sharlpy talk to anyone that live s in the uk 

for 15 years homicide rates dropped after the gun ban the rate only went back up when conservatives gutted law enforcment fundng and manpower

ask anyone in blrtian about this they will tall you i am 100% factually spot on https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/world/europe/uk-police-crime-austerity.html  "BIRMINGHAM, England — On a foggy afternoon last fall, a suicidal patient walked out of Solihull Hospital and disappeared. Alerted by hospital staff, police officers discovered her on a Birmingham street, having downed a bottle of vodka.

The West Midlands Police has seen $220 million in budget cuts since the Conservative-led government’s austerity program began in 2010. The department has slashed a quarter of its officers, leaving numbers nearly as low as when the force was formed in 1974. Across England and Wales, police staffing has fallen by about 20,000 officers.

um no no the actual figure isnt 237 its actually about 4000 accordig to the fbi

the rising crime rate is due to police manpower cuts, before the cutswere made crime had droped to an all time low figure conservatives slasshed socail service and law enforcment budgets

Excuses.

i can prove everything i say is true i've researched it, why dont you ask some people here from the uk? hm i will tell you why your a coward and you are afraid i'm right and that threatens  your pathetic gun wet dream you sick sad american fascist

I'm sorry for not wasting my time responding to your gish gallop.

How are all of the hot robberies over there in the UK? Not well, I presume.

lol i am actually winning

I think dustyrider made a good observation (pretty sure it was him).  the illegal/black market for guns is probably saturated (I believe this to be true) so even a total ban wouldn't impact the illegal guns for many decades (my opinion, not his necessarily), this will also escalate the diy guns and gun parts as well as the black market guns smuggled into the U.S.  We can't keep drugs out so no real reason to believe we could keep guns out either.

Yeah, and I can guarantee you that most people shopping in that market are going to have criminal intent. Law-abiding people are the ones who will be left unarmed. I don't see that solving any problems, not do I see giving criminals a potentially larger stream of revenue helping, either.

imagine being an armed criminal in a city of unarmed citizens

prices already high would rise, and that has a big impact for example in australia a semi automatic m 4 carbine an ar15 of any sort , 35K american, who has 35k to spend on a semi atuomiatic rifle?

on your part?yes yes i see that clearly, you simply cant handle the truth